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title: Amos 5
slug: kjv/amos-5
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:07:54.163Z
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**1 **Hear ye this word which I take up against you, *even* a lamentation, O house of Israel.

**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.

**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.

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

**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.

**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.

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

**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:

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

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

**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.

**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*.

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

**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.

**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.

**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.

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

**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.

**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.

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

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

**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.

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

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

**25 **Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? **26 **But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. **27 **Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name *is* The God of hosts.