Amos chapter 5. Seek the Lord and live. Hear this word that I take up over you and lamentation,

O House of Israel. Fallen no more to rise as the Virgin Israel, forsaken on her land with none to raise her up.

For thus, says the Lord God, the city that went out a thousand

shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.

For thus says the Lord, the house of Israel, seek me and live, but do not seek Bethel, and do not

enter into Gilgall or cross over to Birshiba.

For Gilgall shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel.

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to

the earth, he who made the pleiades in Orion, and turn deep darkness into the morning and

darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface

of the earth, the Lord is his name, who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction

comes upon the fortress. They hate him who reproves in the gate. They abhor him who speaks

the truth. Therefore, because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him,

you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins.

You who afflict the righteous who take a bribe and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Therefore, he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Seek good and not evil, that you may live.

And so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said,

hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate.

It may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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