Amos 5
1 Hear this word that I utter this lament on you, O house of Israel! 2 The virgin of Israel has fallen, and not rise again, lies down on her soil, nor is there one who raises. 3 thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that put a thousand men in the country, you will not be a hundred; the city that makes their country a hundred, you will not be that ten to the house of Israel.
4 thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel: Seek me and live! 5 Bethel Do not try, do not go to Gilgal, do not you go up to Beersheba: for Gilgal will certainly in captivity, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.
6 Seek the LORD and live, - for fear that he is not rushed like a fire on the house of Joseph, and devour without that there are those who go out in Bethel - 7 you who changed the law In the absence, and throw down the justice!
8 He made the Pleiades and Orion, silent dawn in the shadow of death, and makes the day a dark night, calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: his name is the Lord. 9 He is on the precipice rising he suddenly potent, so that the ruin falls on the forts.
10 They hate the one who takes them to the door and have a horror of those who speak with integrity. 11 So, given that trample on the poor and to require him gifts of wheat, you manufactured homes of monumental, but not inhabit them; planted pleasant vineyards, but not drink their wine. 12 Because I know how many are your transgressions, such as heavy are your sins, you suppress the right, accepted gifts and do wrong to the poor at the door. 13 is why in times like these, the wise man is silent, because the times are evil.
14 Seek good and not evil, that you live, and the Lord God of Hosts, be with you, as you say. 15 Hate evil, love good, and, outside, firmly established the right. Perhaps the Lord God of hosts, has pity on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord: In all the squares will lament, and all roads will say: 'Alas! alas! ' We will call the farmers to take their mourning, and ordered those laments that they do. 17 In all the vines will complain, I will pass among you, saith the Lord.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! What awaits you from you day of the Lord? It will be a day of darkness, not light. 19 will be of you as one who fled from a lion and a bear meets him, as of one who enter the house, putting his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him. 20 The day of the Lord is not it maybe darkness and not light? very dark and without glory? 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemn assembly. 22 If you offered me your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I do not like it, and do not account f or fat of beasts, which offered me in sacrifizi di azioni di grazie. 23 Lungi da me il rumore de' tuoi canti! ch'io non oda più la musica de' tuoi saltèri! 24 Ma corra il diritto com'acqua, e la giustizia, come un rivo perenne! 25 O casa d'Israele, mi presentaste voi sacrifizi e oblazioni nel deserto, durante i quarant'anni? 26 Orbene voi vi toglierete in ispalla il baldacchino del vostro re, e il piedistallo delle vostre immagini, la stella dei vostri dèi, che voi vi siete fatti; 27 e io vi farò andare in cattività al di là di Damasco, dice l'Eterno, che ha nome l'Iddio degli eserciti.
La Parola è piena di appelli da parte di Dio e se la leggete secondo l'ordine in cui sono messi i libri, vi assicuro che alle volte viene da dire “ma quante volte c'è scritta questa cosa!”
Ebbene, forse sbufferemo e ci scocceremo di leggere tante volte la stessa cosa, eppure se l'Eterno è costretto a dire tante volte sempre la stessa cosa, probabilmente non è un caso, ma forse si sta rivolgendo a delle creature disattente.
Questo fatto dovrebbe farci riflettere e indurci a scrivere a caratteri headlines on our hearts the truth that many times we underestimate:
4 thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel: Seek me and live! 5 Bethel Do not try, do not go to Gilgal, do not you go up to Beersheba: for Gilgal will certainly in captivity, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.
Who are we looking for in life? What we rely on. Several times we have seen that when the people of Israel sought support in other nations, promptly fell, or was disappointed.
The Lord, in the Book of Amos, once again tells us: Seek and ye shall live!
Forget everything else ... For a moment we lay eyes on these words and let your heart speak. Let us put aside the world and its running around and let us turn to God
6 Seek the LORD and live, - for fear that he is not rushed like a fire on the house of Joseph, and without that devours those who go out there in Bethel - 7 you who changed the law in absinthe, and throw down the justice!
We, who subverted justice and we know only point the finger ... let's stop and let us look inside. We discover that the first culprit to blame in reality we are.
8 He made the Pleiades and Orion, silent dawn in the shadow of death, and makes the day a dark night, calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: his name is the Lord.
He is the Lord God of opposites ... the Lord who keeps his hand in the darkness and light, day and night, good and evil ....
Him that moves water from the sea and pours them out on the ground ... he lives in the sky above us, is the Lord!
The human heart longs for something so great, that it neither sees as attempts to fill the hearts of many evil deeds and trusts what he sees around him.
Yet the Lord came down from his sky high and it has become so small, to be trampled by human foot. He saw the suffering in the face, to be found more easily than before. He simply says to call upon him with a heart filled with spirit and he is, and how if it is!
The Lord of the sky above the gaze on the earth for men of integrity willing to do his will and gives him life, but not del tram tram che tutti conosciamo, ma una vita nuova, dove la luce entra illumina tutto. Lasciamo stare per un attimo la morte e l'aldilà. Molti infatti come sentono la parola Dio, pensano al giorno in cui non ci saranno più.
Lasciamo perdere la morte, ma concentriamoci già da oggi, perché l'Eterno non cambia le vite dopo la morte, ma già oggi le tramuta dalla morte alla vita.
10 Essi odiano colui che li riprende alla porta, e hanno in orrore chi parla con integrità. 11 Perciò, visto che calpestate il povero ed esigete da lui donativi di frumento, voi fabbricate case di pietre da taglio, ma non le abiterete; piantate vigne deliziose, ma non ne berrete il vino.
Il dramma nostro è che detestiamo le parole di riprensione, perché abbiamo un mostro dentro che si chiama orgoglio che dobbiamo difendere. Talvolta però, se avessimo il coraggio di ammettere i nostri errori e di seguire il consiglio non solo di Dio, ma anche di chi ci vuole bene, alle volte ci troveremmo molto meglio.
12 Poiché io conosco come son numerose le vostre trasgressioni, come son gravi i vostri peccati; voi sopprimete il giusto, accettate regali e fate torto ai poveri alla porta. 13 is why in times like these, the wise man is silent, because the times are evil.
The Lord judges us know why? Because no one better than he knows how big our transgressions. He alone has the power to do so and in front of this word, we should bend down and shut up. Other than pointing fingers at others ... if there's anyone to blame, we are always and only ourselves.
the judge his creatures and will not be in our oaths to silence him, because one day everything will be in the sunlight.
We who talk a lot, maybe even too much, which suppress the righteous and accept gifts.
Our desire to have everything for free is so great that we are not satisfied even with what we have. Maybe God just interested in this world because what he gives us is immediate and particular material. Yet we do not realize that when we fulfill our soul, we gain even the material dimension.
Not because we become richer, we have more things or anyone. Simply because the conversion leads to a distortion of the scale of values \u200b\u200band what the first underestimated, instead becomes the pill to cure our perpetual dissatisfaction.
What is therefore the wise man? What is the one who comes to this glorious conclusion? In such a world is silent and you realize that you can not improve it. The only thing is to look to God, despite all open airway, it drops the haughty and opens the way to the right.
14 Seek good and not evil, that you live, and the Lord God of Hosts, be with you, as you say. 15 Hate evil, love good, and, outside, firmly established the right.
So what is the cure for this world? Not so much the great works ... those are only after a step even more important look good and be guarantors of the law.
Today, the motto of nations is to transgress the rules. It is competing to see who gets more in the next round.
is how we want to continue? That's how we plan to improve the already degrading condition in which we lie? Do not we look around, because I repeat ... the first people to judge us only ever ourselves.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord: In all the squares you will cry, and all roads will say: 'Alas! alas! ' We will call the farmers to take their mourning, and ordered those laments that they do. 17 In all the vines will complain, I will pass among you, saith the Lord.
It will lament for the condition it is, because that is the result of human works.
20 The day of the Lord is not it maybe darkness and not light? very dark and without glory?
The day of the LORD will not be rosy, because in fact the man has nothing to bring to God, but a huge load of guilt and aberrant.
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemn assembly. 22 If you offered me your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I do not like it, and do not account f or fat of beasts, which offers me in the peace-offerings. 23 Lungi da me il rumore de' tuoi canti! ch'io non oda più la musica de' tuoi saltèri! 24 Ma corra il diritto com'acqua, e la giustizia, come un rivo perenne!
Che guaio quando ci perdiamo in sterili rituali, senza far splendere prima di tutto il diritto dell'Eterno nella nostra vita.
Già, perché il primo passo è la coerenza e quando si dice di essere credenti, non basta l'etichetta e il nome, ma prima di tutto ci vuole la condotta.
Non basta dire Signore Signore, ma l'essenza della fede risiede nella purezza di cuore.
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