Amos 5:15

A Lament And Call To Repentance

¹⁴ Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is. ¹⁵ Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph. ¹⁶ Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.

Be Merciful

City Gate

Establish Justice

God Almighty

Hate Evil

Have Mercy

Lord God of Hosts

What is Good

Be Gracious

Amos

Jehovah

Joseph

No

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked.

Joel 2:14

Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake -- a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God!

Romans 12:9

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Micah 5:7-8

Those survivors from Jacob will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive.

Exodus 32:30

The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the Lord -- perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin."

Amos 5:10

The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

Micah 5:3

So the Lord will hand the people of Israel over to their enemies until the time when the woman in labor gives birth. Then the rest of the king's countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse."

1 Kings 20:31

His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz had no army left except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops and trampled on them like dust.

2 Kings 14:26-27

The Lord saw Israel's intense suffering; everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.

2 Kings 15:29

During Pekah's reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.'"

2 Chronicles 19:6-11

He told the judges, "Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

Psalm 34:14

Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it!

Psalm 36:4

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

Psalm 37:27

Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

Psalm 82:2-4

He says, "How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)

Psalm 119:104

Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.

Psalm 139:21-22

O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you, and despise those who oppose you?

Jeremiah 7:5-7

You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

Jeremiah 31:7

Moreover, the Lord says, "Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, 'Lord, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.'

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph's family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.

Amos 5:24

Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

Amos 6:12

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die."

Micah 2:12

I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.

Romans 7:15-16

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Romans 8:7

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.