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阿摩司書 6

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1 國為列國之首,人最著名,且為以色列家所歸向,在錫安和撒瑪利亞安逸無慮的,有禍了!

2 你們要過到甲尼察,從那裡往大城哈馬去,又非利士人的迦特。那些比你們的國還強嗎?境界比你們的境界還寬嗎?

3 你們以為降禍的日子還遠,在位上盡行強暴(或譯:行強暴使審判臨)。

4 你們躺臥在象牙上,舒身在榻上,中的羔,棚裡的犢;

5 彈琴鼓瑟,唱消閑的歌曲,為自己製造樂器,如同大衛所造的;

6 以大碗喝酒,用上等的油抹身,卻不為約瑟的苦難擔憂。

7 所以這些人必在被擄的人中首先被擄,舒身的人荒宴之樂必消滅了。

8 耶和華萬軍之指著自己起誓,我憎惡雅各的榮華,厭棄他的宮殿;因此我必將城和其中所有的都交付敵人。

9 那時,若在房之內剩下個人,也都必

10 死人的伯叔,就是燒他屍首的,要將這屍首搬到房外,問房屋內間的人:你那裡還有人沒有?他必:沒有;又:,不要作聲,因為我們不可提耶和華的名。

11 看哪,耶和華出令,房就被攻破,小就被打裂。

12 豈能在崖石上奔跑?人豈能在那裡用牛耕種呢?你們卻使公平變為苦膽,使公的果子變為茵蔯。

13 你們喜愛虛浮的事,自誇我們不是憑自己的力量取了角麼?

14 耶和華萬軍之:,以色列家阿,我必興起一國攻擊你們;他們必欺壓你們,從哈馬口直到亞拉巴的

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #75

  
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75. 4.

In that day I will visit, and make an end of the kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:4-5).

The days of visitation will come, the days of retribution will come, He will visit their sins (Hosea 9:7, 9).

They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us (Hosea 10:8).

They shall be laid waste as in the day of battle (Hosea 10:14).

The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him (Hosea 12:3).

The day of Jehovah is great and very terrible, who then shall sustain it (Joel 2:11; 3:4).

A day of battle and a day of tempest (Amos 1:14).

Then the powerful one shall not deliver his soul, and the strong of heart among the heroes shall flee away naked in that day (Amos 2:14, 16).

He will visit upon them all their iniquities, in that day (Amos 3:2, 14).

If they dig into hell, if they ascend to the heavens or in the depth of the sea, etc., thence will I draw them out (Amos 9:2-6).

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah; to what end is the day of Jehovah for you? it is a day of darkness and not of light. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and thick darkness and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18, 20.)

The end is come upon my people Israel. Wherefore the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day: there shall be many a dead body (Amos 8:2-3).

It is called the day of destruction, the day of straitness (Obadiah 12-14, 18, 18).

The day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy retribution shall return upon thy head. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness (Obadiah 14, 15, 17, 17).

  
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Amos 2:14

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14 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;