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14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: No one cares for my soul.
“I was no prophet, 5 I cried out to You, O LORD:
Nor was I a son of a prophet, I said, “You are my refuge,
But I was a sheepbreeder My portion in the land of the living.
And a tender of sycamore fruit. 6 Attend to my cry,
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Then the LORD took me as I followed For I am brought very low;
the flock, Deliver me from my persecutors,
And the LORD said to me, For they are stronger than I.
‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ 7 Bring my soul out of prison,
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Now therefore, hear the word That I may praise Your name;
of the LORD: The righteous shall surround me,
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, For You shall deal bountifully with me.”
And do not spout against the house
of Isaac.’ Proverbs 29:27
“Therefore thus says the LORD:
17 27 An unjust man is an abomination
to the righteous,
‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; And he who is upright in the way is an
Your sons and daughters shall fall by abomination to the wicked.
the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey Revelation 5:1–14
line; And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat
You shall die in a defiled land; 5 on the throne a scroll written inside and on
And Israel shall surely be led away the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw
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captive
From his own land.’ ” a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice,
“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose
Psalm 142:1–7 its seals?” And no one in heaven or on the
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earth or under the earth was able to open the
A Contemplation of David. A Prayer when he was
in the cave. scroll, or to look at it.
I cry out to the LORD with my voice;
With my voice to the LORD
I make my supplication.
I pour out my complaint before Him; This is typical of various kinds of contracts in
2 5:1 a scroll written inside and on the back.
I declare before Him my trouble.
the ancient world, including deeds, marriage
When my spirit was overwhelmed
3 contracts, rental and lease agreements, and
within me, wills. The inside of the scroll contained all the
Then You knew my path. details of the contract, and the outside—or
In the way in which I walk back—contained a summary of the docu-
They have secretly set a snare ment. In this case it almost certainly is a
for me. deed—the title deed to the earth (Jer. 32:7ff.).
Look on my right hand and see, wills 7 times—on the edge at each roll—to
4 sealed with seven seals.Romans sealed their
For there is no one who acknowledges prevent unauthorized entry. Hebrew title
me; deeds required a minimum of 3 witnesses and
Refuge has failed me; 3 separate seals,with more important transac-
tions requiring more witnesses and seals.

142:1–7 Under the same circumstances as
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Psalm 57 (according to the superscription), So I wept much, because no one was found
David recounted his desperate days hiding in worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at
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the cave of Adullam (1 Sam. 22:1) while Saul it. But one of the elders said to me, “Do not
sought him to take his life (1 Sam. 18–24). It weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the
appears that David’s situation,for the moment Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll
at least, seems hopeless without God’s inter- and to loose its seven seals.”
vention. Psalm 91 provides the truths that 6 And I looked, and behold, in the midst of
bring the solution. the throne and of the four living creatures,
and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as

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