5Amos 5

1Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:Select Amos 5:1

2The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise; she is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.Select Amos 5:2

3For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, of the house of Israel.Select Amos 5:3

4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live;Select Amos 5:4

5But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.Select Amos 5:5

6Seek the LORD, and live — lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel —Select Amos 5:6

7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground;Select Amos 5:7

8Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, and darkeneth the day into night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is His name;Select Amos 5:8

9That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.Select Amos 5:9

10They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.Select Amos 5:10

11Therefore, because ye trample upon the poor, and take from him exactions 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 thereof.Select Amos 5:11

12For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate.Select Amos 5:12

13Therefore the prudent doth keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.Select Amos 5:13

14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.Select Amos 5:14

15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.Select Amos 5:15

16Therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: Lamentation shall be in all the broad places, and they shall say in all the streets: 'Alas! alas!' and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and proclaim lamentation to such as are skilful of wailing.Select Amos 5:16

17And in all vineyards shall be lamentation; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the LORD.Select Amos 5:17

18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.Select Amos 5:18

19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.Select Amos 5:19

20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?Select Amos 5:20

21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.Select Amos 5:21

22Yea, though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.Select Amos 5:22

23Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.Select Amos 5:23

24But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.Select Amos 5:24

25Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?Select Amos 5:25

26So shall ye take up Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.Select Amos 5:26

27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith He, whose name is the LORD God of hosts.Select Amos 5:27