Bible Reading for June 30   
      
   Amos 7   
   [1] Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers   
   in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the   
   latter growth after the king's mowings. [2] And it came to pass, that when   
   they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD,   
   forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.   
   [3] The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. [4] Thus hath   
   the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by   
   fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. [5] Then said I,   
   O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.   
   [6] The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.   
   [7] Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a   
   plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. [8] And the LORD said unto me, Amos,   
   what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will   
   set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by   
   them any more: [9] And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the   
   sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house   
   of Jeroboam with the sword.   
   [10] Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,   
   saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel:   
   the land is not able to bear all his words.   
   [11] For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall   
   surely be led away captive out of their own land. [12] Also Amaziah said unto   
   Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat   
   bread, and prophesy there: [13] But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for   
   it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.   
   [14] Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I   
   a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: [15]   
   And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go,   
   prophesy unto my people Israel. [16] Now therefore hear thou the word of the   
   LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against   
   the house of Isaac. [17] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an   
   harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword,   
   and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land:   
   and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.   
      
   Amos 8   
   [1] Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer   
   fruit. [2] And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer   
   fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I   
   will not again pass by them any more.   
   [3] And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord   
   GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them   
   forth with silence.   
   [4] Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the   
   land to fail,   
   [5] Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the   
   sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel   
   great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? [6] That we may buy the poor for   
   silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the   
   wheat? [7] The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never   
   forget any of their works.   
   [8] Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth   
   therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and   
   drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.   
   [9] And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will   
   cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear   
   day: [10] And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into   
   lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon   
   every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end   
   thereof as a bitter day.   
   [11] Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in   
   the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the   
   words of the LORD:   
   [12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the   
   east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not   
   find it.   
   [13] In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. [14]   
   They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and,   
   The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.   
      
   Amos 9   
   [1] I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of   
   the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and   
   I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not   
   flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. [2] Though   
   they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to   
   heaven, thence will I bring them down: [3] And though they hide themselves in   
   the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be   
   hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent,   
   and he shall bite them: [4] And though they go into captivity before their   
   enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will   
   set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.   
   [5] And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt,   
   and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a   
   flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. [6] It is he that   
   buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth;   
   he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face   
   of the earth: The LORD is his name. [7] Are ye not as children of the   
   Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought   
   up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the   
   Syrians from Kir? [8] Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful   
   kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I   
   will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. [9] For, lo, I   
   will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as   
   corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.   
   [10] All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil   
   shall not overtake nor prevent us.   
   [11] In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and   
   close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build   
   it as in the days of old:   
   [12] That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which   
   are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. [13] Behold, the days   
   come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the   
   treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet   
   wine, and all the hills shall melt. [14] And I will bring again the captivity   
   of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit   
   them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall   
   also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.   
   [15] And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled   
   up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.   
      
      
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