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Amos 5:2

Contemporary English Version 1995

You, dearest Israel, have fallen, never to rise again— you lie deserted in your own land, with no one to help you up.

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Jeremiah, go and tell the people how you feel about all this. So I told them: “Tears will flood my eyes both day and night, because my nation suffers from a deadly wound.

In the future, I will rebuild David's fallen kingdom. I will build it from its ruins and set it up again, just as it used to be.

You made promises to the goddess Ashimah at Samaria; you made vows to other gods at the shrines of Dan and Beersheba. So now you will fall and never get up.

Israel, return! Come back to the Lord, your God. Sin has made you fall.

In two or three days he will heal us and restore our strength that we may live with him.

Zion, how can I comfort you? How great is your pain? Lovely city of Jerusalem, how can I heal your wounds, gaping as wide as the sea?

“This is how Babylon will sink when the Lord destroys it. Everyone in the city will die, and it won't have the strength to rise again.” Jeremiah's writing ends here.

You are proud, but you will stumble and fall, and no one will help you up. I will set your villages on fire, and everything around you will go up in flames.

You are precious to me, and so I will rebuild your nation. Once again you will dance for joy and play your tambourines.

So I, the Lord, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done.

I see the enemy defeating us time after time, leaving everything in ruins. Even my own home is destroyed in a moment.

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

I sent an army to chase you with chariots and horses; now they lie dead, unable to move. They are like an oil lamp with the flame snuffed out.

It staggers and shakes like a drunkard or a hut in a windstorm. It is burdened down with sin; the earth will fall, never again to get up.

We will slaughter your sons to make them pay for the crimes of their ancestors. They won't take over the world or build cities anywhere on this earth.

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious Lord— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

The people of Israel disobeyed all the commands of the Lord their God. They made two gold statues of calves and set up a sacred pole for Asherah; they also worshiped the stars and the god Baal.

During Pekah's rule, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria marched into Israel. He captured the territories of Gilead and Galilee, including the towns of Ijon, Abel-Bethmaacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, as well as the entire territory of Naphtali. Then he took Israelites from those regions to Assyria as prisoners.

The Lord said: People of Jerusalem, when you stumble and fall, you get back up, and if you take a wrong road, you turn around and go back.

Give me one good reason not to punish them as they deserve. I, the Lord All-Powerful, have spoken.

‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’




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