Old Testament · Prophets
Amos chapter 5
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Listen to this word I am lifting over you,
a , house of Israel:She has fallen and will not get up again,
.
She lies dumped on her own ground
with no one to lift her.This is what the Master Yahweh says:
The town that marches out a thousand
will have a hundred left,
and the town that marches out a hundred
will have ten left,
for the house of Israel.This is what Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
, and live.Do not go looking at Bethel.
Do not walk into Gilgal.
Do not cross over to ,
because
and .Come looking for Yahweh, and live,
or he will break out like fire on .
It will eat Bethel up
and nobody will put it out.You turn into
and throw what is right down in the dirt.He made .
He turns pitch black into morning
and darkens the day down into night.
He
and pours them out over the face of the land.
Yahweh is his name.He brings sudden wreckage down on the strong,
and ruin comes over the walled city.At they hate ,
and they cannot stand anyone who tells it plainly.So, because you trample the poor
and take a cut of his grain,
you have built
and you will not live in them.
You have planted vineyards worth having
and you will not drink their wine.I know how many times you have
and how heavy your are,
you who corner the innocent and take
and shove the poor aside at the gate.So the sensible man says nothing in a time like this,
because the time is evil.Go looking for good and not evil,
so that you live,
and then Yahweh, , will be with you,
the way you keep saying he is.Hate evil and love good.
Stand fair judgment back up at the gate.
Maybe then Yahweh, God who commands armies,
will have mercy on what is left of Joseph.So this is what Yahweh says,
God who commands armies, the Master:
In every open square there will be wailing.
In every street they will be saying, “Oh no, oh no.”
They will call the farmer in from his field to mourn
and hire .In every vineyard there will be wailing,
because I am going to ,
says Yahweh. who are longing for .
What do you want with it?
The day of Yahweh is darkness and not light.It will be like a man running from a lion
who runs into a bear,
or who gets home, puts his hand on the wall,
and a snake bites him.Isn’t the day of Yahweh darkness and not light,
pitch dark with no glimmer in it anywhere?I hate your . I want nothing to do with them.
I will not of your gatherings.Even if you bring me
and your grain gifts, I will not take them,
and the fattened animals you bring ,
I will not so much as look at them.Take the racket of your songs away from me.
I will not listen to the sound of your .Let roll down like water,
and like .Did you bring me sacrifices and grain gifts
through those forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?You have Sakkuth your king
and Kaiwan your star god,
the images you made for yourselves.So I will send you into exile ,
says Yahweh. God who commands armies is his name.