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valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/amos/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Death is Imminent</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again.</p><p class="poetry2">She is abandoned on her own land</p><p class="poetry2">with no one to help her get up.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The sovereign <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says this:</p><p class="poetry2">“The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left;</p><p class="poetry2">the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says this to the family of Israel:</p><p class="poetry2">“Seek me so you can live!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not seek Bethel!</p><p class="poetry2">Do not visit Gilgal!</p><p class="poetry2">Do not journey down to Beer Sheba!</p><p class="poetry2">For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile;</p><p class="poetry2">and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> so you can live!</p><p class="poetry2">Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family;</p><p class="poetry2">the fire will consume</p><p class="poetry2">and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Israelites turn justice into bitterness;</p><p class="poetry2">they throw what is fair and right to the ground.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;</p><p class="poetry2">he can turn the darkness into morning</p><p class="poetry2">and daylight into night.</p><p class="poetry2">He summons the water of the seas</p><p class="poetry2">and pours it out on the earth’s surface.</p><p class="poetry2">The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> is his name!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He flashes destruction down upon the strong</p><p class="poetry2">so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate;</p><p class="poetry2">they despise anyone who speaks honestly.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops</p><p class="poetry2">and exact a grain tax from them,</p><p class="poetry2">you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,</p><p class="poetry2">nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts</p><p class="poetry2">and your numerous sins.</p><p class="poetry2">You torment the innocent, you take bribes,</p><p class="poetry2">and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time,</p><p class="poetry2">for it is an evil time.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good and not evil so you can live!</p><p class="poetry2">Then the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, the God who commands armies, just might be with you,</p><p class="poetry2">as you claim he is.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate what is wrong, love what is right!</p><p class="poetry2">Promote justice at the city gate!</p><p class="poetry2">Maybe the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Because of Israel’s sins this is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says:</p><p class="poetry2">“In all the squares there will be wailing,</p><p class="poetry2">in all the streets they will mourn the dead.</p><p class="poetry2">They will tell the field workers to lament</p><p class="poetry2">and the professional mourners to wail.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In all the vineyards there will be wailing,</p><p class="poetry2">for I will pass through your midst,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="title">The Lord Demands Justice</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe to those who wish for the day of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord!</span></p><p class="poetry2">Why do you want the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s day of judgment to come?</p><p class="poetry2">It will bring darkness, not light.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Disaster will be inescapable,</p><p class="poetry2">as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear,</p><p class="poetry2">then escaped into a house,</p><p class="poetry2">leaned his hand against the wall,</p><p class="poetry2">and was bitten by a poisonous snake.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don’t you realize the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light –</p><p class="poetry2">gloomy blackness, not bright light?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I absolutely despise your festivals!</p><p class="poetry2">I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied;</p><p class="poetry2">I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Take away from me your noisy songs;</p><p class="poetry2">I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Justice must flow like torrents of water,</p><p class="poetry2">righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king,</p><p class="poetry2">and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p><p class="poetry2">He is called the God who commands armies!</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible 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