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Amos 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:1 - Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:3 - For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:4 - For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 - Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:7 - You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 - Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:10 - They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:11 - So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:13 - So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:14 - Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17 - In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 - Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:21 - Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:22 - Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23 - Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:24 - But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:25 - Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Amos Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

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