Bible Reading for June 29   
      
   Amos 4   
   [1] Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria,   
   which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters,   
   Bring, and let us drink.   
   [2] The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come   
   upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with   
   fishhooks. [3] And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is   
   before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. [4] Come   
   to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your   
   sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: [5] And offer a   
   sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free   
   offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.   
   [6] And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want   
   of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.   
   [7] And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three   
   months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it   
   not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece   
   whereupon it rained not withered.   
   [8] So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they   
   were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. [9] I   
   have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your   
   vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm   
   devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. [10] I have   
   sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I   
   slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the   
   stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned   
   unto me, saith the LORD.   
   [11] I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and   
   ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned   
   unto me, saith the LORD.   
   [12] Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this   
   unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. [13] For, lo, he that formeth   
   the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his   
   thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places   
   of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.   
      
   Amos 5   
   [1] Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house   
   of Israel.   
   [2] The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken   
   upon her land; there is none to raise her up. [3] For thus saith the Lord GOD;   
   The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which   
   went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.   
   [4] For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall   
   live:   
   [5] But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba:   
   for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.   
   [6] Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house   
   of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. [7] Ye who   
   turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, [8] Seek   
   him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death   
   into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the   
   waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD   
   is his name:   
   [9] That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled   
   shall come against the fortress.   
   [10] They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh   
   uprightly.   
   [11] Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from   
   him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not   
   dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine   
   of them.   
   [12] For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they   
   afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate   
   from their right.   
   [13] Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil   
   time.   
   [14] Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of   
   hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. [15] Hate the evil, and love the   
   good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts   
   will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. [16] Therefore the LORD, the God   
   of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they   
   shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman   
   to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.   
   [17] And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee,   
   saith the LORD.   
   [18] Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you?   
   the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. [19] As if a man did flee from   
   a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the   
   wall, and a serpent bit him. [20] Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness,   
   and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?   
   [21] I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn   
   assemblies.   
   [22] Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not   
   accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.   
   [23] Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the   
   melody of thy viols.   
   [24] But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty   
   stream. [25] Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the   
   wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?   
   [26] But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,   
   the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. [27] Therefore will I cause   
   you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The   
   God of hosts.   
      
   Amos 6   
   [1] Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of   
   Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel   
   came! [2] Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the   
   great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these   
   kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? [3] Ye that put far away   
   the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;   
   [4] That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches,   
   and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the   
   stall; [5] That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves   
   instruments of musick, like David;   
   [6] That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments:   
   but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. [7] Therefore now shall   
   they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that   
   stretched themselves shall be removed. [8] The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself,   
   saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his   
   palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. [9]   
   And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they   
   shall die.   
   [10] And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring   
   out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of   
   the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he   
   say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.   
   [11] For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with   
   breaches, and the little house with clefts. [12] Shall horses run upon the   
   rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall,   
   and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: [13] Ye which rejoice in a thing   
   of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?   
   [14] But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,   
   saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering   
   in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderness.   
      
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