For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

(A)“Seek me and live;
    but do not seek (B)Bethel,
and do not enter into (C)Gilgal
    or cross over to (D)Beersheba;
for (E)Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
    and (F)Bethel shall come to nothing.”

(G)Seek the Lord and live,
    (H)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
    and it devour, with none to quench it for (I)Bethel,
O (J)you who turn justice to wormwood[a]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

He who made the (K)Pleiades and Orion,
    and turns deep darkness into the morning
    and (L)darkens the day into night,
who (M)calls for the waters of the sea
    (N)and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
(O)the Lord is his name;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit

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