Amos 5:4-17 - Seek God And Live
4 "For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live, 5 but don't seek Bethel. Don't go to Gilgal, and don't pass over to Beer-sheba. Because Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will come to nothing. 6 "Seek the LORD and live! Otherwise, he may break out like a fire in the house of Joseph and devour Bethel, and there will be no one to extinguish it. 7 Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:
8 Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth the LORD is his name. 9 It is he who is raining sudden destruction upon the strong like lightning, so that ruin comes upon the fortress.
10 They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully. 11 "Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink 12 and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court 13 therefore the prudent person remains silent at such a time, for the time is evil.
14 "Pursue good and not evil, so that you may live, and this is what will happen: The LORD God of the Heavenly Armies will be with you, as you have been claiming. 15 Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in court perhaps the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, will be gracious to the survivors of Joseph.'"
16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says: "There will be dirges in all of the streets; and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish. They will call the farmer to mourning and those who lament to grieve. 17 And in all of the vineyards there will be mourning when I pass through your midst,' says the LORD."