Daily Devotions
Amos
"For I will pass through you"
Text: Amos 5:17
A VERY SOBERING WORD OF WARNING
Amos held out a word of hope to the people of Israel. If the people were to repent the Lord might still forgive and relent from pouring out His fury on the nation that had turned rogue! But if the nation continued in their sinful ways, they would have to bear the consequences of choosing to remain in idolatry and sin!
“Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
‘There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
And skillful lamenters to wailing.
In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For I will pass through you,’ says the LORD.”
Amos 5:16-17