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Amos 5 📜 📕 ↷
A Lamentation against Israel
1 HEAR ye this word, that I lift upon you a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall not add to rise again.📜💬📚
2 The virgin of Israel is cast forth upon her land, there is none to raise her up.📜💬📚
3 Because thus saith our Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it an hundred: and out of which there came an hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.📜💬📚
A Call to Repentance
4 Because thus saith our Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.📜💬📚
5 And seek not Bethel, and into Galgal enter not, and into Bersabee you shall not pass: because Galgal shall be led captive, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.📜💬📚
6 Seek ye our Lord, & live: lest perhaps the house of Joseph be burnt as fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.📜💬📚
7 You that turn judgement into wormwood, and leave off justice in the land.📜💬📚
8 Him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.📜💬📚
9 He that seeketh destruction upon the strong, & bringeth depopulation upon the mighty.📜💬📚
10 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: & him that speaketh perfectly they have abhorred.📜💬📚
11 Therefore because you spoiled the poor, & took the chosen prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most amiable vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.📜💬📚
12 Because I have known many your wickednesses, and your strong sins: enemies of the just, taking bribe, and oppressing the poor in the gate.📜💬📚
13 Therefore shall the wise at that time hold his peace, because it is an evil time.📜💬📚
14 Seek ye good, & not evil, that you may live: & our Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.📜💬📚
15 Hate ye evil, & love good, and establish judgement in the gate: if perhaps our Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.📜💬📚
Woe to Rebellious Israel
16 Therefore thus saith our Lord the God of hosts the Dominatour, in all streets lamentation: & in all places that are without, shall be said woe woe, & they shall call the husband-man to mourning, and to lamentation them that know to lament.📜💬📚
17 And in all vineyards there shall be lamentation: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
18 Woe unto them that desire the day of our Lord: to what purpose the same unto you? This day of our Lord, darkness, and not light.📜💬📚
19 As if a man should fly from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: and enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.📜💬📚
20 Why, is not the day of our Lord darkness, & not light: and mist, and no shining therein?📜💬📚
21 I have hated, and have rejected your festivities: & I will not take the odour of your assemblies.📜💬📚
22 And if you shall offer unto me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: & the vows of your fat things I will not respect.📜💬📚
23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: & the canticles of thy harp I will not hear.📜💬📚
24 And judgement shall be revealed as water, & justice as a mighty torrent.📜💬📚
25 Why, did you offer hosts and sacrifice to me in the desert forty years, o house of Israel?📜💬📚
26 And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to your selves.📜💬📚
27 And I will make you remove beyond Damascus, saith our Lord, the God of hosts is his name.📜💬📚
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