Amos 5:13

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.

I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.