Scripture: Amos 5

Amos
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

AMOS 5:1

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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

AMOS 5:2

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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.

AMOS 5:3

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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

AMOS 5:4

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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

AMOS 5:5

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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.

AMOS 5:6

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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

AMOS 5:7

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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:

AMOS 5:8

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That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

AMOS 5:9

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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

AMOS 5:10

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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.

AMOS 5:11

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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.

AMOS 5:12

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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

AMOS 5:13

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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.

AMOS 5:14

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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.

AMOS 5:15

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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.

AMOS 5:16

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And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

AMOS 5:17

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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.

AMOS 5:18

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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.

AMOS 5:19

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Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

AMOS 5:20

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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

AMOS 5:21

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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.

AMOS 5:22

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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

AMOS 5:23

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

AMOS 5:24

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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

AMOS 5:25

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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

AMOS 5:27

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