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Amos 5 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:1 - Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 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, to the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:4 - For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 - Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:7 - Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - seek him that maketh 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);

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 - that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:10 - They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:11 - Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:13 - Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:14 - Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17 - And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 - Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:21 - I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:22 - Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23 - Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:24 - But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:25 - Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Amos Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

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