Bible, King James Version
Amos
Amos.5
[1] Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
[2] The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more
rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her
up.
[3] For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by
a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by
an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
[4] For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek
ye me, and ye shall live:
[5] But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass
not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
Bethel shall come to nought.
[6] Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out
like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be
none to quench it in Bethel.
[7] Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off
righteousness in the earth,
[8] Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and
turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day
dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and
poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his
name:
[9] That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so
that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
[10] They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they
abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
[11] Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the
poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses
of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
[12] For I know your manifold transgressions and your
mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they
turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
[13] Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that
time; for it is an evil time.
[14] Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the
LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
[15] Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish
judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will
be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
[16] Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith
thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all
the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
[17] And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will
pass through thee, saith the LORD.
[18] Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what
end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not
light.
[19] As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;
or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a
serpent bit him.
[20] Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
[21] I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not
smell in your solemn assemblies.
[22] Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat
offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the
peace offerings of your fat beasts.
[23] Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I
will not hear the melody of thy viols.
[24] But let judgment run down as waters, and
righteousness as a mighty stream.
[25] Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in
the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
[26] But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
[27] Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of
hosts.
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