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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 WEB</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</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 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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Lament for Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."</p> <a name="4" id="4"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><p 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>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."</p> <p class="hdg">The Coming Judgment</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. 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