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The Prophecy
of Amos 5
Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for
a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it
shall rise no more.
The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there
is none to raise her up.
For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which
came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred:
and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be
left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek
ye me, and you shall live.
But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither
shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go
into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.
Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph
be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall
be none to quench Bethel.
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice
in the land,
Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth
darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night:
that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them
out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong,
and waste upon the mighty.
They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have
abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the
choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square
stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant
most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine
of them.
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous
sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing
the poor in the gate.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time,
for it is an evil time.
Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the
Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have
said.
Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in
the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have
mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign
Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in
all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas!
and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because
I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the
Lord.
Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what
end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness,
and not light.
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and
a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and
lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should
bite him.
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light:
and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will
not receive the odour of your assemblies.
And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will
not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of
your fat beasts.
Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will
not hear the canticles of thy harp.
But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice
as a mighty torrent.
Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert
for forty years, O house of Israel?
But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the
image of your idols, the star of your god, which you
made to yourselves.
And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
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