There may be circumstances in your earthly lot which at this moment are peculiarly trying. You look around and wonder how this or that circumstance will terminate. At present it looks very dark-clouds and mists hang over it, and you fear lest these clouds may break, not in showers upon your head, but burst forth in the lightning flash and the thunder stroke! But all things are put in subjection under Christ's feet! That which you dread cannot take place except by His sovereign will-nor can it move any further except by His supreme disposal. Then make yourself quiet. He will not allow you to be harmed. That frowning providence shall only execute His sovereign purposes, and it shall be among those all things which, according to His promise, shall work together for your good. None of our trials come upon us by chance! They are all appointed in weight and measure-are all designed to fulfill a certain end. And however painful they may at present be, yet they are intended for your good. When the trial comes upon you, what a help it would be for you if you could view it thus, “This trial is sent for my good. It does not spring out of the dust. The Lord Himself is the supreme disposer of it. It is very painful to bear; but let me believe that He has appointed me this peculiar trial, along with every other circumstance. He will bring about His own will therein, and either remove the trial, or give me patience under it, and submission to it.
J.C. Philpot

Bible – English_World – Amos Chapter 2:1-16.

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Amos 2

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2:1 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

2:2 But I will send a fire on Moab, And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; And Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

2:3 And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh.

2:4 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;

2:5 But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

2:6 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;

2:7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

2:8 And they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

2:9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

2:10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And led you forty years in the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.

2:11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, And some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, You children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

2:12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

2:13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, As a cart crushes that is full of grain.

2:14 Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won’t strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

2:15 Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; And he who is swift of foot won’t escape; Neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

2:16 And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day,” says Yahweh.