Amos 5
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Hear you this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The
house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
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The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her
up.
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Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand,
in it there shall be left a hundred, and in that out of which there went forth a hundred,
there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.
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Wherefore thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live.
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But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the
Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which
is not.
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Seek you the Lord, and you shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and
it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
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It is he who executes judgement in the height above, and he has established justice
on the earth:
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who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens
the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face
of the earth: the Lord is his name:
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who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
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They hated him whom reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
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Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received
of them choice gifts; you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them;
you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them.
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For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just,
taking bribes, and turning aside the judgement of the poor in the gates.
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Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time Or, of wicked men of evils.
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Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be
with you, as you have said,
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We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore you judgement in the gates; that the
Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
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Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations;
and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to
mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
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And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst
of you, says the Lord.
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Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! Lit. wherefore is this day, etc. what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas
it is darkness, and not light.
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As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he
should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should
bite him.
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Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom Gr. not having light without brightness?
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I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general
assemblies.
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Wherefore if you should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I
will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your See Heb grand peace-offerings.
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Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments.
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But let judgement Gr. fut roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
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Ac 7:42, 43 Have you offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in
the wilderness?
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Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images
of them which you made for yourselves.
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And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his
name.