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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Amos 5 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/amos/5.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</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>Hear ye 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 is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon 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 saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have an hundred left, and that which went forth an 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 saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but seek not 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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be none to quench it in Beth-el:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ye who turn judgment 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 that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon 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 bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy 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 he that is prudent shall keep silence 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 ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.</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, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto 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 saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful 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 the midst of thee, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? 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 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 feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal 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 thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let judgment roll 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>Did ye bring unto 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>Yea, ye have borne Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye 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, saith the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/amos/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>