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<A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; <p class="indent2"> do not journey to Beersheba, <p class="indent1"> for Gilgal will surely go into exile, <p class="indent2"> and Bethel will come to nothing.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the LORD and live, <p class="indent2"> or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; <p class="indent1"> it will devour everything, <p class="indent2"> with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There are those who turn justice into wormwood <p class="indent2"> and cast righteousness to the ground. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He who made the Pleiades and Orion, <p class="indent2"> who turns darkness into dawn <p class="indent2"> and darkens day into night, <p class="indent1"> who summons the waters of the sea <p class="indent2"> and pours them over the face of the earth—<p class="indent2"> the LORD is His name— <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He flashes destruction on the strong, <p class="indent2"> so that fury comes upon the stronghold. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate <p class="indent2"> and despise him who speaks with integrity. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, because you trample on the poor <p class="indent2"> and exact from him a tax of grain, <p class="indent1"> you will never live <p class="indent2"> in the stone houses you have built; <p class="indent1"> you will never drink the wine <p class="indent2"> from the lush vineyards you have planted. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I know that your transgressions are many <p class="indent2"> and your sins are numerous. <p class="indent1"> You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; <p class="indent2"> you deprive the poor of justice in the gate. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, <p class="indent2"> for the days are evil. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Seek good, not evil, <p class="indent2"> so that you may live. <p class="indent1"> And the LORD, the God of Hosts, <p class="indent2"> will be with you, as you have claimed. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hate evil and love good; <p class="indent2"> establish justice in the gate. <p class="indent1"> Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, <p class="indent2"> will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.” <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Woe to Rebellious Israel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#39">Acts 7:39–43</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: <p class="indent1stline">“There will be wailing in all the public squares <p class="indent2"> and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. <p class="indent1"> The farmer will be summoned to mourn, <p class="indent2"> and the mourners to wail. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There will be wailing in all the vineyards, <p class="indent2"> for I will pass through your midst,” <p class="selah"> says the LORD. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! <p class="indent2"> What will the Day of the LORD be for you? <p class="indent2"> It will be darkness and not light. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It will be like a man who flees from a lion, <p class="indent2"> only to encounter a bear, <p class="indent1"> or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, <p class="indent2"> only to be bitten by a snake. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Will not the Day of the LORD <p class="indent2"> be darkness and not light, <p class="indent2"> even gloom with no brightness in it? <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I hate, I despise your feasts! <p class="indent2"> I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, <p class="indent2"> I will not accept them; <p class="indent1"> for your peace offerings of fattened cattle <p class="indent2"> I will have no regard. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Take away from Me the noise of your songs! <p class="indent2"> I will not listen to the music of your harps. <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let justice roll on like a river, <p class="indent2"> and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings <p class="indent2"> forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You have taken along Sakkuth your king <p class="indent2"> and Kaiwan your star god,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> the idols you made for yourselves. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <p class="indent2"> says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>to Aven</i><span class="thin"> </span>, a reference to Beth-aven, a derogatory term for Bethel; see <a href="../hosea/4.htm#15">Hosea 4:15</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> LXX <i>You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/7.htm#42">Acts 7:42–43</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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