| Amos 5:1 |
Hear this word that I take up [as] a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. |
| Amos 5:2 |
Fallen [and] no more to rise / Is the virgin of Israel; / She has been cast down upon her land; / There is none to raise her up. |
| Amos 5:3 |
For thus says the Lord Jehovah, / The city that sent forth a thousand / Will have a hundred left, And that which sent forth a hundred / Will have ten left, / To the house of Israel. |
| Amos 5:4 |
For thus says Jehovah to the house of Israel, / Seek Me, and live; |
| Amos 5:5 |
And do not seek Bethel, / Nor go to Gilgal, / Nor pass on to Beer-sheba; / For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, / And Bethel will become vanity. |
| Amos 5:6 |
Seek Jehovah, and live; / Lest He rush upon the house of Joseph like fire, / And it devour [it,] and there be none to extinguish [the fire] in Bethel. |
| Amos 5:7 |
They turn justice to wormwood / And thrust righteousness down to the ground. |
| Amos 5:8 |
He who makes the Pleiades and Orion / And turns the shadow of death into the morning / And darkens the day with the night; / He who calls for the water of the sea / And pours it upon the surface of the earth, / Jehovah is His name, |
| Amos 5:9 |
Who causes destruction to flash forth upon the strong, / So that destruction comes upon the fortress. |
| Amos 5:10 |
They hate him who reproves in the gate, / And him who speaks with integrity they abhor. |
| Amos 5:11 |
Therefore because you trample upon the poor / And take a forced gift of wheat from them; / You have built houses of hewn stone, / But you will not dwell in them; / You have planted desirable vineyards, / But you will not drink their wine. |
| Amos 5:12 |
For I know that your transgressions are many / And that your sins are mighty, / [You] who vex the righteous [and] take ransom payment / And turn aside [justice for] the needy in the gate. |
| Amos 5:13 |
Therefore he who has insight will keep silent at this time, for it is an evil time. |
| Amos 5:14 |
Seek good and not evil, / In order that you may live; / And so Jehovah the God of hosts will be with you, / As you say. |
| Amos 5:15 |
Hate evil and love good, / And set up justice in the gate. / Perhaps Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious / To the remnant of Joseph. |
| Amos 5:16 |
Therefore thus says Jehovah, / The God of hosts, the Lord: / In all the open plazas there will be wailing, / And in all the streets they will say, Alas! Alas! / And they will call the farmer to mourning, / And for wailing to those skilled in lamentation. |
| Amos 5:17 |
In all the vineyards there will be wailing, / For I will pass through your midst, says Jehovah. |
| Amos 5:18 |
Woe to you who desire / The day of Jehovah! / What good is the day of Jehovah to you? / It will be darkness and not light, |
| Amos 5:19 |
As when a man flees from before a lion / And encounters a bear, / Or goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, / And a serpent bites him. |
| Amos 5:20 |
Will not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light, / Even deep darkness and no brightness to it? |
| Amos 5:21 |
I hate, I despise, your feasts, / And I will not delight in your solemn assemblies. |
| Amos 5:22 |
For if you offer up to Me burnt offerings / And your meal offerings, I will not accept [them;] / Nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted animals. |
| Amos 5:23 |
Take the noise of your songs away from Me, / For I will not hear the melody of your harps. |
| Amos 5:24 |
But let justice roll down like water, / And righteousness, like an ever-flowing river. |
| Amos 5:25 |
Did you bring Me sacrifices and meal offerings / In the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? |
| Amos 5:26 |
Indeed, you took up Sikkuth your king / And Kiyyun your images, the star of your gods that you made for / yourselves. |
| Amos 5:27 |
Thus I will bring you into captivity / Beyond Damascus, says Jehovah; / The God of hosts is His name. |