web - Amos:5:1-17

web@Amos:5:1 @ Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

web@Amos:5:2 @ "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

web@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

web@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;

web@Amos:5:5 @ but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

web@Amos:5:6 @ Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

web@Amos:5:7 @ You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

web@Amos:5:8 @ seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

web@Amos:5:9 @ who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

web@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

web@Amos:5:11 @ Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

web@Amos:5:12 @ For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

web@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

web@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

web@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

web@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

web@Amos:5:17 @ In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.