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she shall no more rise: she is forsaken on her land; there is none to raise her up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus said the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, 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 said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not 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 the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none 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 judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that 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 the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts 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 the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, said the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD 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 did flee 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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Shall not the day of the LORD 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 feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to 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, said the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The American King James Version is Produced by Stone Engelbrite. 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