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Friday, April 19th, 2024
the Third Week after Easter
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Passage Lookup: Amos 5:16-20

New International Version (1984 Edition)
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Amos 5:16
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Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: "There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.
Amos 5:17
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There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD .

The Day of the LORD

Amos 5:18
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Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD ! Why do you long for the day of the LORD ? That day will be darkness, not light.
Amos 5:19
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It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
Amos 5:20
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Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
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