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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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