Amos 5

1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. ‡ Ezk 19:1Jer 7:29Jer 9:10Jer 9:17Amo 3:1Amo 4:1Amo 5:16Ezk 19:14 +82 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. ‡ Jer 14:17Hos 14:12Ki 15:292Ki 17:16Amo 7:2-5Amo 8:14Amo 9:11Ezk 16:36-37 +163 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. ‡ Ezk 12:16Isa 10:22Isa 6:13Rom 9:27Deu 28:62Deu 4:27Isa 1:9Amo 6:9

4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: ‡ 2Ch 15:2Zep 2:3Jer 29:12-13Isa 55:3Psa 14:2Isa 55:6-7Mat 7:8Psa 105:3-4 +95 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. ‡ Hos 4:15Amo 4:4Amo 8:14Gen 21:331Co 1:281Co 2:6Amo 7:17Rev 18:17 +126 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el. ‡ Ezk 20:47-48Ezk 33:11Isa 55:6Amo 5:14Amo 5:4Gen 48:8-20Mrk 9:43-48Zec 10:6 +117 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, ‡ Amo 6:12Amo 5:11-12Deu 29:18Ezk 3:20Hos 10:4Zep 1:6Ezk 18:24Ezk 33:12-13 +88 Seek him that maketh the seven stars 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: The LORD is his name: ‡ Amo 4:13Job 9:9Amo 9:6Amo 8:9Psa 104:20Job 38:31-32Exo 10:21-23Job 12:22 +139 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. ¹ ‡ 2Ki 13:172Ki 13:25Heb 11:34Jer 37:10Mic 5:11 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. ‡ 1Ki 22:8Isa 29:21Jhn 8:45-47Jer 17:16-171Ki 18:171Ki 21:202Ch 24:20-222Ch 25:16 +911 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens 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 wine of them. ² ‡ Deu 28:30Mic 6:15Zep 1:13Jas 2:6Hag 1:6Rev 11:8-10Amo 3:15Mic 2:2 +512 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. ³ ‡ Amo 2:6-7Amo 5:10Isa 1:231Sa 8:3Act 7:52Jas 5:4Mal 3:5Psa 26:9-10 +2113 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. ‡ 2Ti 3:1Ecc 3:7Eph 5:15-16Hos 4:4Mic 2:3Amo 6:10Ecc 9:12Eph 6:13 +614 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. ‡ Jos 1:9Mat 6:33Mic 3:11Mic 6:8Php 4:8-92Ti 4:221Ch 28:20Gen 39:2-3 +1615 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. ‡ Rom 12:93Jn 1:11Jol 2:14Psa 97:101Th 5:21-22Mic 5:7-8Rom 8:7Mic 5:3 +24

16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. ‡ Jol 1:11Jer 9:17-20Jer 9:10Amo 3:13Amo 5:27Amo 8:10Isa 15:2-5Isa 15:8 +917 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. ‡ Exo 12:12Isa 16:10Jer 48:33Exo 12:23Hos 9:1-2Isa 32:10-12Jol 3:17Nam 1:12 +218 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. ‡ Jol 1:15Jol 2:1-2Jol 2:31Jer 30:7Mal 4:1Isa 24:11-12Isa 5:19Isa 5:30 +1019 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. ‡ Isa 24:17-18Jer 15:2-3Act 28:4Jer 48:43-441Ki 20:29-30Amo 9:1-2Job 20:24-25 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? ‡ Isa 13:10Ezk 34:12Zep 1:15Job 10:21-22Job 3:4-6Jud 1:13Mat 22:13Nam 1:8 +1

21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. ⁴ ‡ Isa 1:11-16Pro 28:9Lev 26:31Isa 66:3Jer 6:20Pro 15:8Hos 8:13Gen 8:21 +522 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. ⁵ ‡ Mic 6:6-7Amo 4:4-5Isa 66:3Lev 7:12-15Psa 107:21-22Psa 116:17Psa 50:23Psa 50:8-14 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. ‡ Amo 6:5Amo 8:10Amo 8:3 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. ⁶ ‡ Mic 6:8Jer 22:3Pro 21:3Hos 6:6Mrk 12:32-34Amo 5:14-15Amo 5:7Job 29:12-17 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? ‡ Act 7:42-43Ezk 20:8Neh 9:18Ezk 20:16Jos 24:14Lev 17:7Neh 9:21Deu 32:17-19 +426 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. ⁷ ‡ 2Ki 23:12-13Lev 20:2-51Ki 11:33Lev 18:21 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. ‡ 2Ki 17:6Act 7:43Amo 4:132Ki 15:29