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Amos 7:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then I said, “Won't you please stop? How can our weak nation survive?”

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Our LORD and our God, you save us! Please bring us back home and don't be angry.

Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the LORD All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.

Soon I will stop being angry with you, and I will punish them for their crimes.

Other nations will respect and honour you. Your homes will be filled with children, and you will celebrate, singing praises to me.

I was then alone, so I bowed down and cried out to the LORD, “Why are you doing this? Are you so angry at the people of Jerusalem that everyone must die?”

Tell my servants, the priests, to cry inside the temple and to offer this prayer near the altar: “Save your people, LORD God! Don't let foreign nations make jokes about us. Don't let them laugh and ask, ‘Where is your God?’ ”

Those who have made fun of this day of small beginnings will celebrate when they see Zerubbabel holding this important stone. Those seven lamps represent my eyes—the eyes of the LORD—and they see everything on this earth.

You are merciful, and you treat people better than they deserve. So please forgive these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.




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