Amos 5:1-17 - A Lament And Call To Repentance
1 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,
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Virgin Israel
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.
3 For the Lord God says:
will have only a hundred left,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left
4 For the Lord says to the house of Israel:
or go to Gilgal
or journey to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
or He will spread like fire
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
throw righteousness to the ground.
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who turns darkness
and darkens day into night,
who summons the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the earth
Yahweh is His name.
and it falls on the stronghold.
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at the city gate
and despise
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,
and deprive the poor of justice
at such a time,
for the days are evil.
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so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you,
as you have claimed.
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious
to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:
they will cry out in anguish
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners
for I will pass among you.
The Lord has spoken.