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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 Legacy Standard 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="../">LSB</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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/amos/5.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Seek Me that You May Live</p><p><CC><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear this word which I take up for you as a <i>funeral</i> lament, O house of Israel: <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She has fallen; she will not rise again— <p class="indent2">The virgin Israel. <p class="indent2">She <i>lies</i> abandoned on her land; <p class="indent2">There is none to raise her up. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus says Lord Yahweh, <p class="indent2">“The city which goes forth one thousand <i>strong</i> <p class="indent2">Will have one hundred left, <p class="indent2">And the one which goes forth one hundred <i>strong</i> <p class="indent2">Will have ten left to the house of Israel.” <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, <p class="indent2">“Seek Me that you may live. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But do not seek Bethel, <p class="indent2">And do not come to Gilgal, <p class="indent2">Nor cross over to Beersheba; <p class="indent2">For Gilgal will certainly go into <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>exile, <p class="indent2">And Bethel will become <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>evil. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek Yahweh that you may live, <p class="indent2">Lest He come mightily like a fire, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>O house of Joseph, <p class="indent2">And it will consume with none to quench <i>it</i> for Bethel, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><i>For</i> those who overturn justice into wormwood <p class="indent2">And put righteousness down to the earth.” <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He who made the Pleiades and Orion <p class="indent2">And overturns the shadow of death into morning, <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Who also darkens day <i>into</i> night, <p class="indent2">Who calls for the waters of the sea <p class="indent2">And pours them out on the surface of the earth, <p class="indent2">Yahweh is His name. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>It is He who flashes forth <i>with</i> devastation upon the strong <p class="indent2">So that devastation comes upon the fortification. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They hate him who reproves in the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>gate, <p class="indent2">And they abhor him who speaks <i>with</i> integrity. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore because you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>impose heavy rent on the poor <p class="indent2">And take a tribute of grain from them, <p class="indent2"><i>Though</i> you have built houses of cut stone, <p class="indent2">Yet you will not live in them; <p class="indent2">You have planted desirable vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are mighty, <p class="indent2"><i>You</i> who distress the righteous <i>and</i> take bribes <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>turn aside the needy in the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>gate. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore at <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>such a time the one with insight keeps silent, for it is an evil time. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good and not evil, in order that you may live; <p class="indent2">And thus may Yahweh God of hosts be with you, <p class="indent2">Just as you have said! <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate evil, love good, <p class="indent2">And set justice at the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>gate! <p class="indent2">Perhaps Yahweh God of hosts <p class="indent2">May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus says Yahweh God of hosts, the Lord, <p class="indent2">“There is wailing in all the plazas, <p class="indent2">And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ <p class="indent2">They also call the farmer to mourning <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>professional weepers to wailing. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And in all the vineyards <i>there is</i> wailing <p class="indent2">Because I will pass through the midst of you,” says Yahweh. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe, you who are longing for the day of Yahweh, <p class="indent2">For what purpose <i>will</i> the day of Yahweh <i>be</i> to you? <p class="indent2">It <i>will be</i> darkness and not light; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>As when a man flees from a lion <p class="indent2">And a bear meets him; <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Or he goes home, leans his hand against the wall, <p class="indent2">And a snake bites him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><i>Will</i> not the day of Yahweh <i>be</i> darkness instead of light, <p class="indent2">Even thick darkness with no brightness in it? <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I hate, I reject your feasts, <p class="indent2">Nor do I <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>delight in your solemn assemblies. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, <p class="indent2">I will not accept <i>them</i>; <p class="indent2">And I will not <i>even</i> look at the peace offerings of your fatlings. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Remove from Me the tumult of your songs; <p class="indent2">I will not even listen to the melody of your harps. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let justice roll down like waters <p class="indent2">And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You also carried along <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Sikkuth your king and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Kiyyun, your images, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">5</span> Gilgal sounds like Heb root <i>galah</i>, which means <i>to go into exile</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or Beth <i>Aven</i>, cf. Hos 4:15; 5:8; 10:5<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or in <i>the house</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>And He darkened</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> The place where court was held<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>trample upon</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>they turn</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> The place where court was held<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>that time</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> The place where court was held<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>those who know lamentation</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>Then</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>like to smell</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i>You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>Sakkuth (Saturn)</i>, <i>shrine of your Moloch</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>Kaiwan (Saturn)</i>, <i>stands of</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>your star gods</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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