Amos 5:4-15

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴ For thus says the LORD to the House of Israel: “Seek Me, and you shall live.”

⁵ But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. And do not go to Beersheba. For Gilgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.

⁶ Seek the LORD, and you shall live, lest He break out like fire in the House of Joseph and devour it; and there are none to quench it in Bethel.

⁷ They turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the Earth.

⁸ He makes Pleiades and Orion; and He turns the shadow of death into the morning; and He makes the day dark as night. He calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the open earth. The LORD is His Name.

⁹ He strengthens the destroyer against the mighty. And the destroyer shall come against the fortress.

¹⁰ They have hated him who rebukes in the gate. And they abhorred him who speaks uprightly.

¹¹ Forasmuch, then, as your treading is upon the poor—and you take from him burdens of wheat—you have built houses of hewn stone. But you shall not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins. They afflict the just. They take rewards. And they oppress the poor in the gate.

¹³ Therefore, the prudent shall keep silence in that time. For it is an evil time.

¹⁴ Seek good, and not evil, that you may live. And the LORD God of Hosts shall be with you, as you have spoken.

¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the good. And establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of Hosts will be merciful to the remnant of Joseph.