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Amos 5:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent  , at such a time, for the days are evil.

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But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.


Therefore, the Lord says: I am now planning  a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.


But let no one dispute;  let no one argue, for my case is against you priests.  ,,


a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak;


For this reason take up the full armour  of God, so that you may be able to resist  in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.


I heard, and I trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress to come against the people invading us.


A close relative  and burner  , will remove his corpse  from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, ‘Any more with you? ’ That person will reply, ‘None.’ Then he will say, ‘Silence, because the Lord’s name must not be invoked.’


They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace.  It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.


But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, ‘Don’t answer him.’


For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.


But the people kept silent; they did not answer him at all, for the king’s command was, ‘Don’t answer him.’


Should I continue to wait now that they are silent, now that they stand there and no longer answer?





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