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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday December 11, 2017 (NIV)

Amos 4-6

Social and Spiritual Corruption

4 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan(A)
who are on the hill of Samaria,
women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,(B)
who say to their husbands,
“Bring us something to drink.”(C)

2 The Lord God has sworn(D) by His holiness:(E)

Look, the days are coming[a]
when you will be taken away with hooks,(F)
every last one of you with fishhooks.(G)
3 You will go through breaches in the wall,(H)
each woman straight ahead,
and you will be driven along toward Harmon.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

4 Come to Bethel and rebel;
rebel even more at Gilgal!(I)
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(J)
your tenths every three days.
5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,(K)
and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings,(L)
for that is what you Israelites love to do!(M)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

God’s Discipline and Israel’s Apostasy

6 I gave you absolutely nothing to eat[b](N)
in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to Me.(O)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

7 I also withheld the rain from you(P)
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.(Q)
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.(R)
8 Two or three cities staggered
to another city to drink water(S)
but were not satisfied,(T)
yet you did not return(U) to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

9 I struck you with blight and mildew;(V)
the locust devoured(W)
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,(X)
yet you did not return to Me.(Y)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

10 I sent plagues like those of Egypt;(Z)
I killed your young men with the sword,(AA)
along with your captured horses.(AB)
I caused the stench of your camp
to fill your nostrils,(AC)
yet you did not return to Me.(AD)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

11 I overthrew some of you
as I[c] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,(AE)
and you were like a burning stick
snatched from a fire,(AF)
yet you did not return to Me(AG)—
this is the Lord’s declaration.

12 Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you,
and since I will do that to you,
Israel, prepare to meet your God!(AH)
13 He is here:
the One who forms the mountains,(AI)
creates the wind,(AJ)
and reveals His[d] thoughts to man,(AK)
the One who makes the dawn out of darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth.(AL)
Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.(AM)

Lamentation for Israel

5 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,(AN) house of Israel:

2 She has fallen;
Virgin Israel(AO) will never rise again.(AP)
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.(AQ)

3 For the Lord God says:

The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left,(AR)
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left(AS) in the house of Israel.

Seek God and Live

4 For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek Me and live!(AT)
5 Do not seek Bethel(AU)
or go to Gilgal(AV)
or journey to Beer-sheba,(AW)
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
6 Seek Yahweh(AX) and live,
or He will spread like fire(AY)
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.(AZ)
7 Those who turn justice into wormwood(BA)
throw righteousness to the ground.

8 The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,(BB)
who turns darkness[e] into dawn(BC)
and darkens day into night,(BD)
who summons the waters of the sea(BE)
and pours them out over the face of the earth(BF)—
Yahweh is His name.(BG)
9 He brings destruction[f] on the strong,[g](BH)
and it falls on the stronghold.(BI)

10 They hate the one who convicts the guilty(BJ)
at the city gate
and despise(BK) the one who speaks with integrity.
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor(BL)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone(BM)
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.(BN)
12 For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,(BO) take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice(BP) at the gates.
13 Therefore, the wise person will keep silent[h](BQ)
at such a time,
for the days are evil.

14 Seek good and not evil
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you,
as you have claimed.(BR)
15 Hate evil and love good;(BS)
establish justice in the gate.(BT)
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious(BU)
to the remnant of Joseph.(BV)

16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;(BW)
they will cry out in anguish[i] in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,(BX)
and professional mourners[j](BY) to wail.
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards,(BZ)
for I will pass among you.(CA)
The Lord has spoken.

The Day of the Lord

18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord!(CB)
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.(CC)
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion(CD)
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
20 Won’t the Day of the Lord
be darkness rather than light,(CE)
even gloom without any brightness in it?(CF)
21 I hate, I despise your feasts!(CG)
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.(CH)
22 Even if you offer Me
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,(CI)
I will not accept them;(CJ)
I will have no regard
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.(CK)
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(CL)
24 But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.(CM)

25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?(CN) 26 But you have taken up[k] Sakkuth[l][m] your king[n] and Kaiwan[o] your star god, images you have made for yourselves.(CO) 27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”(CP) Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.(CQ) He has spoken.

Woe to the Complacent

6 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion(CR)
and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria—
the notable people in this first of the nations,
those the house of Israel comes to.
2 Cross over to Calneh(CS) and see;
go from there to great Hamath;(CT)
then go down to Gath(CU) of the Philistines.
Are you better than these kingdoms?
Is their territory larger than yours?
3 You dismiss any thought of the evil day(CV)
and bring in a reign of violence.(CW)

4 They lie on beds inlaid with ivory,(CX)
sprawled out on their couches,(CY)
and dine on lambs from the flock(CZ)
and calves from the stall.
5 They improvise songs[p] to the sound of the harp(DA)
and invent[q] their own musical instruments like David.(DB)
6 They drink wine by the bowlful(DC)
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.(DD)
7 Therefore, they will now go into exile
as the first of the captives,(DE)
and the feasting(DF) of those who sprawl out
will come to an end.

Israel’s Pride Judged

8 The Lord God has sworn by Himself(DG)—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Hosts:

I loathe Jacob’s pride(DH)
and hate his citadels,(DI)
so I will hand over the city(DJ) and everything in it.

9 And if there are 10 men left in one house, they will die.(DK) 10 A close relative[r] and burner[s](DL) will remove his corpse[t] from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”

That person will reply, “None.”

Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”(DM)

11 For the Lord commands:

The large house will be smashed to pieces,
and the small house to rubble.(DN)

12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs;
does anyone plow there with oxen?[u]
Yet you have turned justice into poison(DO)
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood(DP)—
13 you who rejoice over Lo-debar(DQ)
and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim
for ourselves by our own strength?”(DR)
14 But look, I am raising up a nation
against you, house of Israel(DS)—
this is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Hosts—
and they will oppress you
from the entrance of Hamath[v](DT)
to the Brook of the Arabah.[w]

Footnotes:

  1. Amos 4:2 Lit coming on you
  2. Amos 4:6 Lit you cleanness of teeth
  3. Amos 4:11 Lit God
  4. Amos 4:13 Or his
  5. Amos 5:8 Or turns the shadow of death
  6. Amos 5:9 Hb obscure
  7. Amos 5:9 Or stronghold
  8. Amos 5:13 Or the prudent will perish
  9. Amos 5:16 Lit will say, “Alas! Alas!”
  10. Amos 5:16 Lit and those skilled in lamentation
  11. Amos 5:26 Or you will lift up
  12. Amos 5:26 LXX, Sym, Syr, Vg read the tent; Ac 7:43
  13. Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian war god also called Adar or Ninurta
  14. Amos 5:26 LXX reads up the tent of Molech and Rephan; Ac 7:43
  15. Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian god identified with Saturn
  16. Amos 6:5 Hb obscure
  17. Amos 6:5 Or compose on
  18. Amos 6:10 Lit His uncle
  19. Amos 6:10 A burner of incense, a memorial fire, or a body; Hb obscure
  20. Amos 6:10 Lit remove bones
  21. Amos 6:12 Some emend to plow the sea
  22. Amos 6:14 Or from Lebo-hamath
  23. Amos 6:14 Probably the Valley of Zared at the southeast end of the Dead Sea

Cross references:

  1. 4:1 : Ps 22:12; Ezk 39:18
  2. 4:1 : Ex 23:3, 6; Lv 19:15; 25:35; Dt 15:4-11; Am 5:11; 8:6
  3. 4:1 : Am 2:8; 6:6
  4. 4:2 : Am 6:8; 8:7
  5. 4:2 : Ps 89:35
  6. 4:2 : Is 37:29; Ezk 38:4
  7. 4:2 : 2Kg 19:28; 2Ch 33:10-11
  8. 4:3 : Jr 52:7
  9. 4:4 : Am 5:5
  10. 4:4 : Am 5:21-22
  11. 4:5 : Lv 7:12
  12. 4:5 : Lv 22:18-21
  13. 4:5 : Jr 7:9-10; Hs 9:1, 10
  14. 4:6 : Is 3:1; Jr 14:18
  15. 4:6 : Is 9:13; Jr 5:3; Hg 2:17
  16. 4:7 : Jr 3:1-3; 5:23-25
  17. 4:7 : Ex 9:4, 26; 10:22-23
  18. 4:7 : Lv 26:18-19; Jl 1:10-12
  19. 4:8 : 1Kg 18:5; Jr 14:4
  20. 4:8 : Ezk 4:16; Hg 1:6
  21. 4:8 : Jr 3:7
  22. 4:9 : Dt 28:22; Hg 2:17
  23. 4:9 : Jl 1:4; Am 7:1-2
  24. 4:9 : Dt 28:38-42; Jl 1:4-7, 12
  25. 4:9 : Jr 3:10
  26. 4:10 : Ex 11:4-5; Dt 28:27, 60
  27. 4:10 : Jr 11:22; 18:21; 48:15
  28. 4:10 : 2Kg 13:3, 7
  29. 4:10 : Is 34:3
  30. 4:10 : Is 9:13
  31. 4:11 : Gn 19:24-25
  32. 4:11 : Zch 3:1-2
  33. 4:11 : Is 9:13
  34. 4:12 : Is 32:11; 64:2; Jr 5:22
  35. 4:13 : Jb 38:4-7; Ps 65:6; Is 40:12
  36. 4:13 : Ps 135:7
  37. 4:13 : Ps 139:2; Dn 2:30
  38. 4:13 : Mc 1:3
  39. 4:13 : Am 5:8-9, 27; 9:5-6
  40. 5:1 : Jr 7:29; 9:10, 17; Ezk 19:1
  41. 5:2 : Jr 14:17; 31:4, 21
  42. 5:2 : Am 8:14
  43. 5:2 : Is 51:18
  44. 5:3 : Is 6:13
  45. 5:3 : Am 6:9
  46. 5:4 : Dt 4:29; 32:46-47
  47. 5:5 : 1Kg 12:28-29
  48. 5:5 : 1Sm 7:16; 11:14
  49. 5:5 : Gn 21:31-33
  50. 5:6 : Is 55:3, 6-7
  51. 5:6 : Dt 4:24; 32:22; Heb 12:29
  52. 5:6 : Is 33:14; 66:24; Jr 4:4
  53. 5:7 : Am 6:12
  54. 5:8 : Jb 9:9; 38:31
  55. 5:8 : Gn 1:2-3; Jb 38:12
  56. 5:8 : Am 8:9
  57. 5:8 : Ps 104:6-9; Jr 10:13
  58. 5:8 : Jb 36:27-30
  59. 5:8 : Am 4:13; 9:5-6
  60. 5:9 : Is 29:5
  61. 5:9 : Mc 5:11
  62. 5:10 : Is 29:21
  63. 5:10 : Is 59:15
  64. 5:11 : Am 3:9; 8:6; Jms 1:27
  65. 5:11 : Am 3:15; 6:11
  66. 5:11 : Dt 28:30; Mc 6:15; Zph 1:13
  67. 5:12 : Is 1:23; 5:23
  68. 5:12 : Am 2:6-7
  69. 5:13 : Ec 3:7; Hs 4:4
  70. 5:14 : Is 48:1-2
  71. 5:15 : Rm 12:9
  72. 5:15 : Is 1:17
  73. 5:15 : Jl 2:14
  74. 5:15 : Mc 3:5, 7-8
  75. 5:16 : Jr 9:10, 18-20; Am 8:3
  76. 5:16 : Jl 1:11
  77. 5:16 : Jr 9:17
  78. 5:17 : Is 16:10; Jr 48:33
  79. 5:17 : Ex 12:12
  80. 5:18 : Is 5:19; Jl 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31
  81. 5:18 : Is 5:30
  82. 5:19 : Jb 20:24; Is 24:17; Jr 15:2-3
  83. 5:20 : Is 13:10; Zph 1:15
  84. 5:20 : Jl 2:2; Zph 1:15
  85. 5:21 : Is 1:11-16; 66:3; Am 6:8
  86. 5:21 : Lv 26:31; Jr 14:12; Hs 5:6
  87. 5:22 : Mc 6:6-7
  88. 5:22 : Jr 14:12
  89. 5:22 : Lv 7:11-15
  90. 5:23 : Is 5:12
  91. 5:21-24 : Mc 6:6-8
  92. 5:25 : Dt 32:17; Jos 24:14; Neh 9:18-21; Ac 7:42-43
  93. 5:26 : Is 44:12-20
  94. 5:25-27 : 2Kg 17:5-6; Ac 7:42-43
  95. 5:27 : Am 4:13
  96. 6:1 : Is 32:9-11; Zph 1:12
  97. 6:2 : Gn 10:10; Is 10:9
  98. 6:2 : 1Kg 8:65; 2Kg 18:34; Is 10:9
  99. 6:2 : 1Sm 5:8; 2Ch 26:6
  100. 6:3 : Am 9:10
  101. 6:3 : Am 3:10
  102. 6:4 : Am 3:15
  103. 6:4 : Am 3:12
  104. 6:4 : Ezk 34:2-3
  105. 6:5 : Am 5:23; 8:10
  106. 6:5 : 1Ch 15:16
  107. 6:6 : Am 2:8; 4:1
  108. 6:6 : Jr 8:21; Lm 2:11
  109. 6:7 : Am 7:11, 17
  110. 6:7 : 1Kg 20:16-21; Dn 5:4-6, 30
  111. 6:8 : Gn 22:16; Jr 22:5; 51:14
  112. 6:8 : Lv 26:30; Dt 32:19; Ps 106:40
  113. 6:8 : Am 3:10-11
  114. 6:8 : Hs 11:6
  115. 6:9 : Am 5:3
  116. 6:10 : 1Sm 31:12; 2Ch 16:14; Jr 34:5
  117. 6:10 : Is 48:1; Jr 44:26; Hs 4:15
  118. 6:11 : Am 1:1; 9:9
  119. 6:12 : 1Kg 21:7-13; Is 59:13-14
  120. 6:12 : Is 5:20; Am 5:7; Rv 8:11
  121. 6:13 : Jb 8:14-15; Ps 2:2-4; Lk 12:19-20
  122. 6:13 : Ps 75:4; Is 28:14-15
  123. 6:14 : Am 3:11
  124. 6:14 : Nm 34:7-8; 2Kg 14:25
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Revelation 2:18-3:6

The Letter to Thyatira

18 “Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira:

“The Son of God, the One whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze,[a] says: 19 I know your works—your love, faithfulness,[b] service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first. 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality[c] and to eat meat sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.[d] 22 Look! I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her[e] practices. 23 I will kill her children with the plague.[f](A) Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds[g] and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works. 24 I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things[h] of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you. 25 But hold on to what you have until I come.(B) 26 The one who is victorious and keeps My works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations—

27 and he will shepherd[i](C) them with an iron scepter;
he will shatter them like pottery(D)[j]—

just as I have received this from My Father. 28 I will also give him the morning star.(E)

29 “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

The Letter to Sardis

3 “Write to the angel of the church in Sardis:

“The One who has the seven spirits of God(F) and the seven stars says: I know your works; you have a reputation[k] for being alive, but you are dead. 2 Be alert and strengthen[l] what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before My God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. But if you are not alert, I will come[m] like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come against you.[n] 4 But you have a few people[o] in Sardis who have not defiled[p] their clothes, and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy. 5 In the same way, the victor will be dressed in white clothes, and I will never erase his name from the book of life(G) but will acknowledge his name before My Father and before His angels.

6 “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 2:18 Probably gleaming white hot; Rv 1:15
  2. Revelation 2:19 Or faith
  3. Revelation 2:20 Or commit fornication
  4. Revelation 2:21 Or her fornication
  5. Revelation 2:22 Other mss read their
  6. Revelation 2:23 Or I will surely kill her children
  7. Revelation 2:23 Lit kidneys
  8. Revelation 2:24 Or the secret things
  9. Revelation 2:27 Or rule; see 19:15
  10. Revelation 2:27 Ps 2:9
  11. Revelation 3:1 Lit have a name
  12. Revelation 3:2 Other mss read guard
  13. Revelation 3:3 Other mss add upon you
  14. Revelation 3:3 Or upon you
  15. Revelation 3:4 Lit few names
  16. Revelation 3:4 Or soiled

Cross references:

  1. 2:23 : Ezk 33:27
  2. 2:25 : Rv 3:11
  3. 2:27 : Rv 19:15
  4. 2:27 : Ps 2:9
  5. 2:28 : Is 14:12; 2Pt 1:19; Rv 22:1
  6. 3:1 : Rv 1:4; 4:5; 5:6
  7. 3:5 : Rv 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 15; 21:27
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Psalm 130

Psalm 130

Awaiting Redemption

A song of ascents.

1 Out of the depths I call to You, Yahweh!(A)
2 Lord, listen to my voice;
let Your ears be attentive
to my cry for help.(B)

3 Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?(C)
4 But with You there is forgiveness,
so that You may be revered.(D)

5 I wait for Yahweh; I wait
and put my hope in His word.(E)
6 I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.(F)

7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord.(G)
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.(H)
8 And He will redeem Israel
from all its sins.(I)

Cross references:

  1. 130:1 : Ps 69:2; Lm 3:55
  2. 130:2 : 2Ch 6:40; Ps 28:6; 140:6
  3. 130:3 : Ps 76:7; Mal 3:2; Rv 6:17
  4. 130:4 : 1Kg 8:39-40; Ps 86:5; Jr 33:8-9
  5. 130:5 : Ps 33:20; 119:74, 81
  6. 130:6 : Ps 63:6; 119:147
  7. 130:7 : Ps 131:3
  8. 130:7 : Ps 111:9
  9. 130:8 : Lk 1:68; Ti 2:14
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Proverbs 29:21-22

21 A slave pampered from his youth
will become arrogant[a] later on.

22 An angry man stirs up conflict,
and a hot-tempered man[b] increases rebellion.(A)

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 29:21 Hb obscure
  2. Proverbs 29:22 Lit a master of rage

Cross references:

  1. 29:22 : Pr 15:18; 26:21; 28:25
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