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阿摩司書 7

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1 耶和華指示我一件事:為王割菜(或譯:草)之,菜又發生;剛發生的時候,造蝗蟲。

2 蝗蟲盡那的青物,我就耶和華啊,求你赦免;因為雅各微弱,他怎能站立得住呢?

3 耶和華就後悔,:這災可以免了。

4 耶和華又指示我一件事:他命懲罰以色列,就吞滅深淵,險些將地燒滅。

5 我就耶和華啊,求你止息;因為雅各微弱,他怎能站立得住呢?

6 耶和華就後悔,:這災也可免了。

7 他又指示我一件事:有一道是按準繩建築的,主拿準繩站在其上。

8 耶和華對我:阿摩司啊,你見甚麼?我見準繩。:我要吊起準繩在我民以色列中,我必不再寬恕他們。

9 以撒的邱壇必然淒涼,以色列的聖所必然荒廢。我必興起,用刀攻擊耶羅波安的家。

10 伯特利的祭司亞瑪謝打發人到以色列王耶羅波安那裡,說:阿摩司在以色列家中圖謀背叛你;他所說的一切,這國擔當不起;

11 因為阿摩司如此:耶羅波安必被刀殺,以色列民定被擄去離開本地。

12 亞瑪謝又對阿摩司:你這先見哪,要逃往猶大去,在那裡糊口,在那裡預言,

13 卻不要在伯特利再說預言;因為這裡有王的聖所,有王的宮殿。

14 阿摩司對亞瑪謝:我原不是先知,也不是先知的門徒(原文是兒子)。我是牧人,又是修理桑樹的。

15 耶和華選召我,使我不跟從羊群,對我:你去向我民以色列預言。

16 亞瑪謝啊,現在你要耶和華的。你:不要向以色列預言,也不要向以撒家滴下預言。

17 所以耶和華如此:你的妻子必在城中作妓女,你的兒女必倒在刀下;你的地必有人用繩子量了分取,你自己必在污穢之地。以色列民定被擄去離開本地。

   

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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;