Amos 5

1Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:Cross-references: Jer 7:29 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 9:17 · Jer 9:20 · Ezek 19:1 · Ezek 19:14 · +10 more

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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:16 · Isa 3:8 · Isa 14:21 · Isa 24:20 · Isa 37:22 · +18 more

3For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”Cross-references: Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:62 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 10:22 · Ezek 12:16 · +2 more

4For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;Cross-references: Deut 30:1 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 15:2 · 2Chr 20:3 · 2Chr 34:3 · Ps 14:2 · +11 more

5but 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.Cross-references: Gen 21:33 · Lev 26:30 · Deut 28:41 · 1Sam 7:16 · 1Sam 11:14 · Job 8:22 · +14 more

6Seek 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.Cross-references: Gen 48:8 · Ex 22:6 · Deut 4:24 · Josh 18:5 · Judg 1:22 · 2Sam 19:20 · +13 more

7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!Cross-references: Deut 29:18 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 125:5 · Isa 1:23 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 10:1 · +10 more

8Seek 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,Cross-references: Gen 7:11 · Ex 10:21 · Ex 14:24 · 1Ki 18:44 · Job 9:9 · Job 12:22 · +15 more

9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:17 · 2Ki 13:25 · Jer 37:10 · Mic 5:11 · Heb 11:34

10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:17 · 1Ki 21:20 · 1Ki 22:8 · 2Chr 24:20 · 2Chr 25:16 · 2Chr 36:16 · +11 more

11Therefore, because 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:38 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 59:13 · Isa 65:21 · Amos 3:15 · +7 more

12For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.Cross-references: Deut 16:18 · Deut 31:21 · Ruth 4:1 · 1Sam 8:3 · 2Ki 17:7 · Job 29:7 · +23 more

13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.Cross-references: Eccl 3:7 · Eccl 9:12 · Isa 36:21 · Isa 37:3 · Hos 4:4 · Amos 6:10 · +8 more

14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.Cross-references: Gen 39:2 · Gen 39:23 · Ex 3:12 · Num 16:3 · Josh 1:9 · 1Chr 28:20 · +18 more

15Hate 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.”Cross-references: Ex 32:30 · 2Sam 16:12 · 1Ki 20:31 · 2Ki 13:7 · 2Ki 14:26 · 2Ki 15:29 · +26 more

16Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.Cross-references: Isa 15:2 · Isa 15:8 · Isa 22:12 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 9:17 · +11 more

17In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 12:12 · Ex 12:23 · Isa 16:10 · Isa 32:10 · Jer 48:33 · Hos 9:1 · +4 more

18“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.Cross-references: Isa 5:19 · Isa 5:30 · Isa 9:19 · Isa 24:11 · Isa 28:15 · Jer 17:15 · +12 more

19As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:29 · Job 20:24 · Isa 24:17 · Jer 15:2 · Jer 48:43 · Amos 9:1 · +1 more

20Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?Cross-references: Job 3:4 · Job 10:21 · Isa 13:10 · Ezek 34:12 · Nah 1:8 · Zeph 1:15 · +3 more

21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Lev 26:31 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:27 · Prov 28:9 · Isa 1:11 · +7 more

22Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.Cross-references: Lev 7:12 · Ps 50:8 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 107:21 · Ps 116:17 · Isa 66:3 · +2 more

23Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Cross-references: Amos 6:5 · Amos 8:3 · Amos 8:10

24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.Cross-references: Job 29:12 · Prov 21:3 · Jer 22:3 · Hos 6:6 · Amos 5:7 · Amos 5:14 · +2 more

25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?Cross-references: Lev 17:7 · Deut 32:17 · Josh 24:14 · Neh 9:18 · Neh 9:21 · Isa 43:23 · +6 more

26You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:2 · 1Ki 11:33 · 2Ki 23:12

27Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:6 · Amos 4:13 · Acts 7:43