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Amos 5:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

She has fallen; Virgin Israel  will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.

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You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound.


In that day I will restore the fallen shelter  of David: I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,


Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As the way  , of Beer-sheba lives’   – they will fall, never to rise again.


Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.


He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so that we can live in his presence.


What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?


Then say, “In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.” ’ The words of Jeremiah end here.


The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. I will set fire to his cities, and it will consume everything around him.


Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will take up your tambourines again and go out in joyful dancing.


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.


Disaster after disaster  is reported because the whole land is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my tent curtains, in a moment.


say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster  they beg, ‘Rise up and save us! ’


who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty one together (they lie down, they do not rise again; they are extinguished, put out like a wick  ) –


this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.


The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.


Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity  of their ancestors. They will never rise up to possess a land or fill the surface of the earth with cities.


For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the  Lord, defying his glorious presence.


They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images  for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole.  They bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky  and served Baal.


In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser  of Assyria came and captured Ijon,  Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee #– #all the land of Naphtali   #– #and deported the people to Assyria.


‘You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says: Do people fall and not get up again? If they turn away, do they not return?


Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


for Death  has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.





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