dby - Amos:5:1-17

dby@Amos:5:1 @ Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.

dby@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

dby@Amos:5:3 @ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.

dby@Amos:5:4 @ For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

dby@Amos:5:5 @ And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

dby@Amos:5:6 @ Seek Jehovah, 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.

dby@Amos:5:7 @ Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

dby@Amos:5:8 @ [seek him] that made the Pleiades 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: Jehovah is his name.

dby@Amos:5:9 @ He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the strong, and bringeth destruction upon the fortress.

dby@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

dby@Amos:5:11 @ Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.

dby@Amos:5:12 @ For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside [the right of] the needy in the gate.

dby@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

dby@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.

dby@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

dby@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

dby@Amos:5:17 @ And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.