• Amos 5:10

    They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

  • Amos 5:11

    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 pleasantb vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  • Amos 5:12

    For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe,c and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Amos 5:13

    Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

  • Amos 5:14

    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.

  • Amos 5:15

    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.

  • Amos 5:16

    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.

  • Amos 5:17

    And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

  • Amos 5:18

    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.

  • Amos 5:19

    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.

  • Amos 5:20

    Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Amos 5:21

    I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

  • Amos 5:22

    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.

  • Amos 5:23

    Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

  • Amos 5:24

    But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

  • Amos 5:25

    Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

  • Amos 5:26

    But ye have borne the tabernacled of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

  • Amos 5:27

    Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

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