Thematic Bible
Amos 5:1 (show verse)
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:2 (show verse)
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise! she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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Amos 5:3 (show verse)
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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Amos 5:4 (show verse)
For thus saith the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Amos 5:5 (show verse)
But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to naught.
Amos 5:6 (show verse)
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 Beth-el.
Amos 5:7 (show verse)
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth,
Amos 5:8 (show verse)
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shades 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: JEHOVAH is his name:
Amos 5:9 (show verse)
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
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Amos 5:10 (show verse)
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Amos 5:11 (show verse)
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.
Amos 5:12 (show verse)
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.
Amos 5:13 (show verse)
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos 5:14 (show verse)
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.
Amos 5:15 (show verse)
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 to the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:16 (show verse)
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 skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Amos 5:17 (show verse)
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
Amos 5:18 (show verse)
Woe to 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.
Amos 5:19 (show verse)
As if a man fled 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.
Amos 5:20 (show verse)
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos 5:21 (show verse)
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 (show verse)
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.
Amos 5:23 (show verse)
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 5:24 (show verse)
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 (show verse)
Have ye offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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Amos 5:26 (show verse)
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 (show verse)
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.