nkjv - Amos:5:1-17

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

nkjv@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up.

nkjv@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

nkjv@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live;

nkjv@Amos:5:5 @ But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.

nkjv@Amos:5:6 @ Seek the LORD and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel--

nkjv@Amos:5:7 @ You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!"

nkjv@Amos:5:8 @ He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.

nkjv@Amos:5:9 @ He rains ruin upon the strong, So that fury comes upon the fortress.

nkjv@Amos:5:10 @ They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

nkjv@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

nkjv@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

nkjv@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time.

nkjv@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.

nkjv@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

nkjv@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: "There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, "Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.

nkjv@Amos:5:17 @ In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through you," Says the LORD.