One Year Bible

Amos 4:1-6:14

Punishment Brings No Repentance

1 Hear this word,

you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,

you women who oppress the poor

and crush the needy,

who say to your husbands,

“Bring us more to drink.”

2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness:

“Behold, the days are coming

when you will be taken away with hooks,

and your posterity with fishhooks.

3 You will go out through broken walls,

each one straight ahead of her,

and you will be cast out toward Harmon,”

declares the Lord.

4“Go to Bethel and transgress;

rebel even more at Gilgal!

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

your tithes every three days.

5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,

and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings.

For that is what you children of Israel love to do,”

declares the Lord GOD.

6“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth

and all your towns with lack of bread,

yet you did not return to Me,”

declares the Lord.

7“I also withheld the rain from you

when the harvest was three months away.

I sent rain on one city

but withheld it from another.

One field received rain;

another without rain withered.

8 People staggered from city to city

for water to drink,

but they were not satisfied;

yet you did not return to Me,”

declares the Lord.

9“I struck you with blight and mildew

in your growing gardens and vineyards;

the locust devoured your fig and olive trees,

yet you did not return to Me,”

declares the Lord.

10“I sent plagues among you

like those of Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with your captured horses.

I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,

yet you did not return to Me,”

declares the Lord.

11“Some of you I overthrew

as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze,

yet you did not return to Me,”

declares the Lord.

12“Therefore, that is what I will do

to you, O Israel,

and since I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

13 For behold, He who forms the mountains,

who creates the wind

and reveals His thoughts to man,

who turns the dawn to darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth—

the Lord, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

A Lamentation against Israel

1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

2“Fallen is Virgin Israel,

never to rise again.

She lies abandoned on her land,

with no one to raise her up.”

3 This is what the Lord GOD says:

“The city that marches out a thousand strong

will have but a hundred left,

and the one that marches out a hundred strong

will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

A Call to Repentance

(Joel 1:13–20; Zephaniah 2:1–3; Luke 13:1–5)

4 For this is what the Lord says to the house of Israel:

“Seek Me and live!

5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal;

do not journey to Beersheba,

for Gilgal will surely go into exile,

and Bethel will come to nothing.

6 Seek the Lord and live,

or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph;

it will devour everything,

with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood

and cast righteousness to the ground.

8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion,

who turns darkness into dawn

and darkens day into night,

who summons the waters of the sea

and pours them over the face of the earth —

the Lord is His name —

9 He flashes destruction on the strong,

so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate

and despise him who speaks with integrity.

11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor

and exact from him a tax of grain,

you will never live

in the stone houses you have built;

you will never drink the wine

from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12 For I know that your transgressions are many

and your sins are numerous.

You oppress the righteous by taking bribes;

you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times,

for the days are evil.

14 Seek good, not evil,

so that you may live.

And the Lord, the God of Hosts,

will be with you, as you have claimed.

15 Hate evil and love good;

establish justice in the gate.

Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts,

will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Woe to Rebellious Israel

(Acts 7:39–43)

16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

“There will be wailing in all the public squares

and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.

The farmer will be summoned to mourn,

and the mourners to wail.

17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards,

for I will pass through your midst,”

says the Lord.

18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord!

What will the Day of the Lord be for you?

It will be darkness and not light.

19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion,

only to encounter a bear,

or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall,

only to be bitten by a snake.

20 Will not the Day of the Lord

be darkness and not light,

even gloom with no brightness in it?

21“I hate, I despise your feasts!

I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

for your peace offerings of fattened cattle

I will have no regard.

23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 But let justice roll on like a river,

and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings

forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king

and Kaiwan your star god,

the idols you made for yourselves.

27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”

says the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Woe to Those at Ease in Zion

(Luke 6:24–26)

1 Woe to those at ease in Zion

and those secure on Mount Samaria,

the distinguished ones of the foremost nation,

to whom the house of Israel comes.

2 Cross over to Calneh and see;

go from there to the great Hamath;

then go down to Gath of the Philistines.

Are you better than these kingdoms?

Is their territory larger than yours?

3 You dismiss the day of calamity

and bring near a reign of violence.

4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory,

and lounge upon your couches.

You dine on lambs from the flock

and calves from the stall.

5 You improvise songs on the harp like David

and invent your own musical instruments.

6 You drink wine by the bowlful

and anoint yourselves with the finest oils,

but you fail to grieve

over the ruin of Joseph.

7 Therefore, you will now go into exile

as the first of the captives,

and your feasting and lounging

will come to an end.

The Pride of Israel

8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself— the Lord, the God of Hosts, has declared:

“I abhor Jacob’s pride

and detest his citadels,

so I will deliver up the city

and everything in it.”

9 And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die. 10And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?”

“None,” that person will answer.

“Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the Lord must not be invoked.”

11 For the Lord gives a command:

“The great house will be smashed to pieces,

and the small house to rubble.”

12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs?

Does one plow the sea with oxen?

But you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say,

‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

14 For behold, I will raise up a nation

against you, O house of Israel,”

declares the Lord, the God of Hosts,

“and they will oppress you

from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

Revelation 2:18-3:6

To the Church in Thyatira

(Acts 16:11–15)

18 To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.

19 I know your deeds — your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance — and your latest deeds are greater than your first.

20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

22 Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. 23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

24 But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you 25than to hold fast to what you have until I come. 26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations. 27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery — just as I have received authority from My Father. 28And I will give him the morning star.

29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’’

To the Church in Sardis

1 “ To the angel of the church in Sardis write:

These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead. 2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. 3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

4 But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. 5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.

6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Psalm 130:1-8

Out of the Depths

1 A song of ascents.

Out of the depths

I cry to You, O LORD!

2 O Lord, hear my voice;

let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

3 If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities,

then who, O Lord, could stand?

4 But with You there is forgiveness,

so that You may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord; my soul does wait,

and in His word I put my hope.

6 My soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen wait for the morning—

more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7 O Israel, put your hope in the Lord,

for with the Lord is loving devotion,

and with Him is redemption in abundance.

8 And He will redeem Israel

from all iniquity.

Proverbs 29:21-22

21 A servant pampered from his youth

will bring grief in the end.

22 An angry man stirs up dissension,

and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

sozo church

One Year Bible

Amos 4:1-6:14

Revelation 2:18-3:6

Psalm 130:1-8

Proverbs 29:21-22