Amos 5:4-15

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Seek Me and live!^(A)
5 Do not seek Bethel^(B)
or go to Gilgal^(C)
or journey to Beer-sheba,^(D)
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
⁶ Seek Yahweh^(E) and live,
or He will spread like fire^(F)
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.^(G)
7 Those who turn justice into wormwood^(H)
throw righteousness to the ground.

⁸ The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(I)
who turns darkness^[a] into dawn^(J)
and darkens day into night,^(K)
who summons the waters of the sea^(L)
and pours them out over the face of the earth^(M)—
Yahweh is His name.^(N)
9 He brings destruction^[b] on the strong,^[c](O)
and it falls on the stronghold.^(P)

¹⁰ They hate the one who convicts the guilty^(Q)
at the city gate
and despise^(R) the one who speaks with integrity.
¹¹ Therefore, because you trample on the poor^(S)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone^(T)
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.^(U)
12 For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,^(V) take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice^(W) at the gates.
¹³ Therefore, the wise person will keep silent^[d](X)
at such a time,
for the days are evil.

¹⁴ Seek good and not evil
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you,
as you have claimed.^(Y)
15 Hate evil and love good;^(Z)
establish justice in the gate.^(AA)
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious^(AB)
to the remnant of Joseph.^(AC)