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Amos 5:1-27
KJV - Amos 5:1-27
Question | Answer |
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Amos 5:1 | 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. |
Amos 5:2 | 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. |
Amos 5:3 | 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. |
Amos 5:4 | 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: |
Amos 5:5 | 5 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 5:6 | 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. |
Amos 5:7 | 7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
Amos 5:8 | 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: |
Amos 5:9 | 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. |
Amos 5:10 | 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. |
Amos 5:11 | 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. |
Amos 5:12 | 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. |
Amos 5:13 | 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. |
Amos 5:14 | 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. |
Amos 5:15 | 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. |
Amos 5:16 | 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. |
Amos 5:17 | 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. |
Amos 5:18 | 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. |
Amos 5:19 | 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. |
Amos 5:20 | 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
Amos 5:21 | 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. |
Amos 5:22 | 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. |
Amos 5:23 | 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. |
Amos 5:24 | 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. |
Amos 5:25 | 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? |
Amos 5:26 | 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. |
Amos 5:27 | 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. |