30_AMO_05_01 hear ye this word which I take up against you, [ even] A lamentation, O house of Israel.
30_AMO_05_02 the virgin of Israel Is fallen; she shall no more rise: she Is forsaken upon her land; [ there Is] none to raise her up.
30_AMO_05_03 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.
30_AMO_05_04 for thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, seek ye me, And ye shall live:
30_AMO_05_05 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.
30_AMO_05_06 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.
30_AMO_05_07 ye who turn judgment to wormwood, And leave off righteousness in the earth,
30_AMO_05_08 [ 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:
30_AMO_05_09 that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
30_AMO_05_10 they hate him that rebuketh in the gate, And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
30_AMO_05_11 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.
30_AMO_05_12 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].
30_AMO_05_13 therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [ Is] an evil time.
30_AMO_05_14 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.
30_AMO_05_15 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.
30_AMO_05_16 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.
30_AMO_05_17 And in all vineyards [ shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
30_AMO_05_18 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.
30_AMO_05_19 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.
30_AMO_05_20 [ shall] not the day of the LORD [ be] darkness, And not light? even very dark, And no brightness in it?
30_AMO_05_21 I hate, I despise your feast days, And I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
30_AMO_05_22 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.
30_AMO_05_23 take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
30_AMO_05_24 but let judgment run down as waters, And righteousness as A mighty stream.
30_AMO_05_25 have ye offered unto me sacrifices And offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
30_AMO_05_26 but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch And Chiun your images, the star of your God, which ye made to yourselves.
30_AMO_05_27 therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [ Is] the God of hosts.