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Amos 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Seek Me that You May Live

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:1 -

Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral lament, O house of Israel:

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 -

She has fallen; she will not rise again

The virgin Israel.

She lies abandoned on her land;

There is none to raise her up.

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For thus says Lord Yahweh,

“The city which goes forth one thousand strong

Will have one hundred left,

And the one which goes forth one hundred strong

Will have ten left to the house of Israel.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:4 -

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel,

“Seek Me that you may live.

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“But do not seek Bethel,

And do not come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into [fn]exile,

And Bethel will become [fn]evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 -

“Seek Yahweh that you may live,

Lest He come mightily like a fire, [fn]O house of Joseph,

And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:7 -

For those who overturn justice into wormwood

And put righteousness down to the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 -

He who made the Pleiades and Orion

And overturns the shadow of death into morning,

[fn]Who also darkens day into night,

Who calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the surface of the earth,

Yahweh is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 -

It is He who flashes forth with devastation upon the strong

So that devastation comes upon the fortification.

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They hate him who reproves in the [fn]gate,

And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:11 -

Therefore because you [fn]impose heavy rent on the poor

And take a tribute of grain from them,

Though you have built houses of cut stone,

Yet you will not live in them;

You have planted desirable vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 -

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are mighty,

You who distress the righteous and take bribes

And [fn]turn aside the needy in the [fn]gate.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:13 -

Therefore at [fn]such a time the one with insight keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:14 -

Seek good and not evil, in order that you may live;

And thus may Yahweh God of hosts be with you,

Just as you have said!

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 -

Hate evil, love good,

And set justice at the [fn]gate!

Perhaps Yahweh God of hosts

May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh God of hosts, the Lord,

“There is wailing in all the plazas,

And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’

They also call the farmer to mourning

And [fn]professional weepers to wailing.

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“And in all the vineyards there is wailing

Because I will pass through the midst of you,” says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 -

Woe, you who are longing for the day of Yahweh,

For what purpose will the day of Yahweh be to you?

It will be darkness and not light;

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As when a man flees from a lion

And a bear meets him;

[fn]Or he goes home, leans his hand against the wall,

And a snake bites him.

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Will not the day of Yahweh be darkness instead of light,

Even thick darkness with no brightness in it?

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:21 -

“I hate, I reject your feasts,

Nor do I [fn]delight in your solemn assemblies.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:22 -

“Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23 -

“Remove from Me the tumult of your songs;

I will not even listen to the melody of your harps.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:24 -

“But let justice roll down like waters

And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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[fn]Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - “You also carried along [fn]Sikkuth your king and [fn]Kiyyun, your images, [fn]the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - “Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
LSB Footnotes
Gilgal sounds like Heb root galah, which means to go into exile
Or Beth Aven, cf. Hos 4:15; 5:8; 10:5
Or in the house
Lit And He darkened
The place where court was held
Or trample upon
Lit they turn
The place where court was held
Lit that time
The place where court was held
Lit those who know lamentation
Or Then
Lit like to smell
Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering
Or Sakkuth (Saturn), shrine of your Moloch
Or Kaiwan (Saturn), stands of
Or your star gods
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