Amos 5:14,15

Amos reiterates more earnestly the exhortation of Amos 5:4; Amos 5:6: if Israel will but amend its ways, perchance even yet there may be a remnant to which Jehovah will be gracious.

Seek The same word as Amos 5:4; Amos 5:6, but followed by an abstract object, in the sense of be studious, anxious about(cf. Isaiah 1:17, - seekjudgment."

and so … as ye say] and Jehovah will then be with you to defend you in reality, exactly as you say (cf. Micah 3:11) that He actually is now. For the thought, cf. Amos 5:18: the Israelites, so long as their material prosperity continued, imagined that Jehovah was with them, as their patron and defender; Amos replies that the real condition of His being with them is the moral goodness of their lives. Jehovah's powerto defend is hinted at significantly by the title -God of hosts" (on Amos 3:13). Sopoints on to, and strengthens, the following as, exactly as in Exodus 10:10.