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Amos, Chapter 5
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation,
O house of Israel.
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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.
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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.
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and
ye shall live:
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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.
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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.
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in
the earth,
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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:
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That
strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress.
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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that
speaketh uprightly.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is
an evil time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through
thee, saith the LORD.
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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.
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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.
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Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even
very dark, and no brightness in it?
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I hate, I despise your feast
days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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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.
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not
hear the melody of thy viols.
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream.
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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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.
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