AM-5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a

lamentation, O house of Israel.

AM-5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise:

she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.

AM-5:3 For thus saith 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.

AM-5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye

me, and ye shall live:

AM-5:5 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 nought.

AM-5:6 Seek the LORD, and ye 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.

AM-5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off

righteousness in the earth,

AM-5:8 [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars 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:

AM-5:9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so

that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

AM-5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor

him that speaketh uprightly.

AM-5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor,

and ye take from him burdens 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 wine of them.

AM-5:12 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].

AM-5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time;

for it [is] an evil time.

AM-5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the

LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

AM-5:15 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 unto the remnant of Joseph.

AM-5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith

thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in

all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman

to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

AM-5:17 And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass

through thee, saith the LORD.

AM-5:18 Woe unto 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.

AM-5:19 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.

AM-5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not

light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

AM-5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell

in your solemn assemblies.

AM-5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat

offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the

peace offerings of your fat beasts.

AM-5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I

will not hear the melody of thy viols.

AM-5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness

as a mighty stream.

AM-5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the

wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

AM-5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and

Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to

yourselves.

AM-5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond

Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts. 

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