Amos 5 — BST
5Verse 1Hear ye 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.Verse 2The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.Verse 3Therefore thus saith 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.Verse 4Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.Verse 5But seek not Bæthel, and go not in to Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bæthel shall be as that which is not.Verse 6Seek ye the Lord, and ye 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.Verse 7It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:Verse 8who 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:Verse 9who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.Verse 10They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.Verse 11Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.Verse 12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.Verse 13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.Verse 14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,Verse 15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.Verse 16Therefore thus saith 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.Verse 17And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.Verse 18Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.Verse 19As 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.Verse 20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom without brightness?Verse 21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.Verse 22Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.Verse 23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.Verse 24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.Verse 25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?Verse 26Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.Verse 27And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.