Amos:5:1-17

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* Hear ye this word which I take up against you , as a lamentation , O house of Israel . * She is fallen , she will not rise again ––the virgin of Israel : she is thrown down upon her land ; there is none to raise her up . * For thus hath said the Lord Eternal , The city that goeth forth with a thousand shall retain but a hundred , and she that goeth forth with a hundred shall retain but ten , to the house of Israel . * For thus hath said the Lord unto the house of Israel , Seek ye for me , and ye shall live ; * But seek not for Beth –el , and into Gilgal enter not , and to Beer –sheba ’ do not pass over ; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile , and Beth –el shall become naught . * Seek for the Lord , and ye shall live : so that he come not suddenly like fire over the house of Joseph , and it devour , and there be none to quench it in Beth –el ; * Ye who change justice into wormwood , and cast down righteousness to the earth ! * he maketh the seven stars and Orion , and changeth into morning the shadow of death , and maketh the day dark into night ; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea , and poureth them out over the face of the earth : The Lord is his name ; * That causeth wasting to prevail against the strong , so that wasting shall come against the fortress . * They hate him that rebuketh in the gate , and him that speaketh uprightly they abhor . * Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor , and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn : if ye have built houses of hewn stone , ye shall not dwell in them ; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards , ye shall not drink their wine . * For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins : ye are those that are the adversaries of the just , that take a ransom , and that wrest the needy in the gate . * Therefore will the intelligent keep silence in that time ; for it is an evil time . * Seek for the good , and not the evil , in order that ye may live : and so will the Lord , the God of hosts , be with you , as ye have said . * Hate the evil , and love the good , and establish justice firmly in the gate : perhaps the Lord the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph . * Therefore thus hath said the Eternal , the God of hosts , the Lord , On all public places there is lamentation , and in all the streets they cry , Woe ! woe ! and they call the husbandman to mourning , and to lamentation those skilled in wailing . * And in all vineyards there is lamentation ; for I will pass through thy midst , saith the Lord .

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