Contemplative Bible Reading

Amos 6:12 (New Living Translation) 12 Can horses gallop over boulders?Can oxen be used to plow them?But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poisonand the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Amos. And the topic, once again, is justice and righteousness. This […]

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Amos 5:23-24 (New Living Translation) 23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise!I will not listen to the music of your harps.24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,an endless river of righteous living. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Amos. Once again, God wants justice and righteousness. God […]

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Amos 5:15 (New Living Translation) Hate evil and love what is good;turn your courts into true halls of justice. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Amos. The people have been living corrupt lives. They stole from one another. They went to court for justice. The judges were bribed. They rich stole from […]

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Amos 8:11-12 (New Living Translation) 11 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from border to border[c] searching for […]

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Amos 5:15 (New Living Translation) Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people. This one is pretty simple. Yet it is one of those that we tend to forget to […]

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Amos 2:4 (New Living Translation) This is what the Lord says: “The people of Judah have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They have rejected the instruction of the Lord, refusing to obey his decrees. They have been led astray by the same lies that deceived their ancestors. In […]

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Amos 5:18-20 (New Living Translation) 18 What sorrow awaits you who say, “If only the day of the Lord were here!” You have no idea what you are wishing for. That day will bring darkness, not light. 19 In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion— only to meet […]

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Amos 2:6 (New Living Translation) This is what the Lord says: “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They sell honorable people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals. This is how far down the people of Israel fell. They are selling people; they […]

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