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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 Lamsa Bible</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" /></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="../">Lamsa</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="../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">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>HEAR this word which I take up concerning you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise; she is left lying on the ground, there is none to raise her up.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD God: The city out of which went forth a thousand men, there shall be left in it a hundred men; and that out of which went forth a hundred men, there shall be left in it ten men to the house of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: Seek me and you shall live;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>But do not seek 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 nought.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the LORD and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour Beth-el, and there will be none to quench it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>You who turn justice into bitterness, and lower righteousness to the ground,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>They have forsaken him who made Pleiades and Orion, and who turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark into night; who calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is his name;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Who makes the weak to rule over the mighty, and exalts the meek over the proud.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>They hate the poor at the gates, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore because you have beaten on the head of the poor and have taken from him the choicest gifts; the houses of hewn stone which you have built, you shall not dwell in; and from the pleasant vineyards which you have planted, you shall not drink wine.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great; you oppress the just, you take a bribe, and you turn aside the cause of the poor in the gate from their right.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good and not evil that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate the evil and love the good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: In all streets there shall be wailing; and in all broad places they shall say, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmers to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? The day of the LORD? For it is a day of darkness and not light.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>As when 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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Such is the day of the LORD; it is darkness and not light; yea, it is a day of thick darkness and no brightness is in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell the savor of your solemn assemblies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Though you offer me your burnt offerings and your meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>But let justice run down like waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>But you carried the tabernacle of Malcom and Chiun your idol, the star which you made a god to yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/amos/5-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD whose name is the God of hosts.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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