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Amos 5
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1Hear you⌃ this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2The virgin of Israel has fallenupon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left one hundred, and [in that] out of which there went forth one hundred, there shall be left tento the house of Israel.
3For 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.
4Therefore thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek you⌃ me, and you⌃ shall live.
4For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.
5But seek not Beth–el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer–sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth–el shall come to nought.
6Seek you⌃ the Lord, and you⌃ shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
6Seek 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 Beth–el.
7[It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
8Seek 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:
9who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you⌃ have received of them choice gifts; you⌃ have built polished houses , but you⌃ shall not dwell in them; you⌃ have planted desirable vineyards, but you⌃ shall not drink the wine of them.
11Forasmuch 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.
12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
12For 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.
13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that you⌃ may live: and so the LordGod Almighty shall be with you, as you⌃ have said,
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore you⌃ judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
15Hate 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.
16Therefore thus says the LordGod Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
16Therefore 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.
17And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord.
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.
18Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
18Woe 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.
19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
19As 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.
20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness ?
20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22Therefore if you⌃ should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat -offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace -offerings .
22Though 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.
23Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25Have you⌃ offered to me victims and sacrifices , O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26Yes, you⌃ took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which you⌃ made for yourselves.
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his name .
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.