Thematic Bible
Amos 5:1 (show verse)
Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!
Amos 5:2 (show verse)
Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up.
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:3 (show verse)
For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "The city that marches out [with] a thousand will [only] have a hundred left. And the one that marches out [with] a hundred will [only] have ten left for the house of Israel."
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:4 (show verse)
For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live."
Amos 5:5 (show verse)
But do not seek Bethel or go [to] Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster."
Amos 5:6 (show verse)
Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire [against] the house of Joseph! And it will devour, {with none to quench} [it] for Bethel.
Amos 5:7 (show verse)
[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
Amos 5:8 (show verse)
The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day [into] night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh [is] his name!
Amos 5:9 (show verse)
The one who makes destruction flash upon [the] fierce, {so that} destruction comes upon [the] fortification.
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:10 (show verse)
They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.
Amos 5:11 (show verse)
Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.
Amos 5:12 (show verse)
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Amos 5:13 (show verse)
Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil.
Amos 5:14 (show verse)
Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
Amos 5:15 (show verse)
Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious [to] the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:16 (show verse)
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all [of] the public squares [there will be] wailing, and in all [of] the streets [they will say], 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call [the] farmers to mourning and [to] wailing, to those who are skilled [in] lamentation.
Amos 5:17 (show verse)
And in all [of the] vineyards [there will be] wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh.
Amos 5:18 (show verse)
Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why [is] this for you the day of Yahweh? It [will be] darkness and not light!
Amos 5:19 (show verse)
[It will be] as [if] a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or he went [into] the house and leaned his hand against the wall and a snake bit him.
Amos 5:20 (show verse)
[Is] not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it?
Amos 5:21 (show verse)
"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.
Amos 5:22 (show verse)
Yes, [even] if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept [them], and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.
Amos 5:23 (show verse)
Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps!
Amos 5:24 (show verse)
But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:25 (show verse)
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offering those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:26 (show verse)
And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.
Amos 5:27 (show verse)
And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh--the God of hosts [is] his name.