Amos 5 — King James Version

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, {even} a lamentation, O house of Israel.● The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; {there is} none to raise her up.● 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.● For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:● 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.● 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.● Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,● {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:● That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. {spoiled: Heb. spoil}● They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.● 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. {pleasant...: Heb. vineyards of desire}● 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}. {a bribe: or, a ransom}● Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it {is} an evil time.● 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.● 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.● 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.● And in all vineyards {shall be} wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.● 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.● 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.● {Shall} not the day of the LORD {be} darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?● I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. {in...: or, your holy days}● 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. {peace...: or, thank offerings}● Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.● But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. {run: Heb. roll}● Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?● But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. {the tabernacle...: or, Siccuth your king}● Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name {is} The God of hosts.●