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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Amos 5 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//amos/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Amos 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/4.htm" title="Amos 4">◄</a> Amos 5 <a href="../amos/6.htm" title="Amos 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/amos/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Lamentation against Israel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Fallen is Virgin Israel, <p class="indent2"> never to rise again. <p class="indent1"> She lies abandoned on her land, <p class="indent2"> with no one to raise her up.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says: <p class="indent1stline">“The city that marches out a thousand strong <p class="indent2"> will have but a hundred left, <p class="indent1"> and the one that marches out a hundred strong <p class="indent2"> will have but ten left in the house of Israel.” <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../joel/1.htm#13">Joel 1:13–20</a>; <a href ="../zephaniah/2.htm">Zephaniah 2:1–3</a>; <a href ="../luke/13.htm">Luke 13:1–5</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: <p class="indent1stline">“Seek Me and live! <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; <p class="indent2"> do not journey to Beersheba, <p class="indent1"> for Gilgal will surely go into exile, <p class="indent2"> and Bethel will come to nothing.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the LORD and live, <p class="indent2"> or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; <p class="indent1"> it will devour everything, <p class="indent2"> with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There are those who turn justice into wormwood <p class="indent2"> and cast righteousness to the ground. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He who made the Pleiades and Orion, <p class="indent2"> who turns darkness into dawn <p class="indent2"> and darkens day into night, <p class="indent1"> who summons the waters of the sea <p class="indent2"> and pours them over the face of the earth—<p class="indent2"> the LORD is His name— <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He flashes destruction on the strong, <p class="indent2"> so that fury comes upon the stronghold. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate <p class="indent2"> and despise him who speaks with integrity. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, because you trample on the poor <p class="indent2"> and exact from him a tax of grain, <p class="indent1"> you will never live <p class="indent2"> in the stone houses you have built; <p class="indent1"> you will never drink the wine <p class="indent2"> from the lush vineyards you have planted. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know that your transgressions are many <p class="indent2"> and your sins are numerous. <p class="indent1"> You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; <p class="indent2"> you deprive the poor of justice in the gate. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, <p class="indent2"> for the days are evil. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good, not evil, <p class="indent2"> so that you may live. <p class="indent1"> And the LORD, the God of Hosts, <p class="indent2"> will be with you, as you have claimed. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate evil and love good; <p class="indent2"> establish justice in the gate. <p class="indent1"> Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, <p class="indent2"> will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.” <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Woe to Rebellious Israel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#39">Acts 7:39–43</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: <p class="indent1stline">“There will be wailing in all the public squares <p class="indent2"> and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. <p class="indent1"> The farmer will be summoned to mourn, <p class="indent2"> and the mourners to wail. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There will be wailing in all the vineyards, <p class="indent2"> for I will pass through your midst,” <p class="selah"> says the LORD. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! <p class="indent2"> What will the Day of the LORD be for you? <p class="indent2"> It will be darkness and not light. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It will be like a man who flees from a lion, <p class="indent2"> only to encounter a bear, <p class="indent1"> or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, <p class="indent2"> only to be bitten by a snake. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Will not the Day of the LORD <p class="indent2"> be darkness and not light, <p class="indent2"> even gloom with no brightness in it? <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I hate, I despise your feasts! <p class="indent2"> I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, <p class="indent2"> I will not accept them; <p class="indent1"> for your peace offerings of fattened cattle <p class="indent2"> I will have no regard. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Take away from Me the noise of your songs! <p class="indent2"> I will not listen to the music of your harps. <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let justice roll on like a river, <p class="indent2"> and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings <p class="indent2"> forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You have taken along Sakkuth your king <p class="indent2"> and Kaiwan your star god,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> the idols you made for yourselves. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <p class="indent2"> says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>to Aven</i>, a reference to Beth-aven, a derogatory term for Bethel; see <a href="../hosea/4.htm#15">Hosea 4:15</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> LXX <i>You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/7.htm#42">Acts 7:42</a>–43<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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