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Amos 5:1-17 — A Lament and Call to Repentance
Amos.5.1-17
1Hear this word which I take up against you as a lamentation, O house of Israel : 2“Fallen, no more to rise, is virgin Israel ; she is forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.” 3For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The city that marches out a thousand will have a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred will have ten left, for the house of Israel.” 4For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and live; 5but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing." 6Seek Yahweh, and live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with no one to quench it for Bethel. 7O you who turn justice into wormwood, and cast righteousness down to the earth! 8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into morning, and darkens day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name. 9He flashes destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress. 10They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks with integrity. 11Therefore, because you trample upon the poor and take a tax of grain from him, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not dwell in them; though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine. 12For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins—you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate. 13Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. 14Seek good, and not evil, so that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Hosts, will be with you, just as you have said. 15Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. 16Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord: "There will be wailing in all the public squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Alas! Alas!' They will call the farmer to mourning, and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation . 17And in all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst ," says Yahweh.
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4/11/2026
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