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Amos 8:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or journey to Beer-sheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.


I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.


and requested letters  from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way,  he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.


But I admit this to you: I worship the God of my ancestors according to the Way,  which they call a sect, believing everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets.


About that time there was a major disturbance about the Way.


But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples, and conducted discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.


He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit,  he was speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only John’s baptism.


those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the stars in the sky; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the  Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;  ,


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


Samaria  will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.


Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skilfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, ‘Let the men who sacrifice  kiss the calves.’


The residents of Samaria  will have anxiety over the calf  of Beth-aven. Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it; the people will mourn over it, over its glory. It will certainly go into exile.


Israel, if you act promiscuously, don’t let Judah become guilty! Do not go to Gilgal or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,  , and do not swear an oath: As the  Lord  lives!


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.


‘Then you are to say to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink,  get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.”


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  ) –


One who becomes stiff-necked, after many reprimands will be shattered instantly – beyond recovery.


But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,  despising his words,  and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.


but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit #– #worshipping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.


then he bought the hill of Samaria  from Shemer for seventy kilograms  of silver, and he built up the hill. He named the city he built Samaria  based on the name Shemer, the owner of the hill.


He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.’


Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.  He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.


Lord, bless his possessions, and accept the work of his hands. Break the back  of his adversaries and enemies, so that they cannot rise again.


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


All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?


Though a righteous person falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin.


Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,  house of Israel:





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