Amos 5:1-15

New King James Version

² The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.

“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

^(B)“Seek Me ^(C)and live;
⁵ But do not seek ^(D)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to ^(E)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And ^(F)Bethel shall come to nothing.
^6 (G)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
⁷ You who ^(H)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

⁸ He made the ^(I)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
^(J)And makes the day dark as night;
He ^(K)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
^(L)The Lord is His name.
⁹ He ^[a]rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.

^10 (M)They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they ^(N)abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
^11 (O)Therefore, because you ^[b]tread down the poor
And take grain ^[c]taxes from him,
Though ^(P)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted ^[d]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.
¹² For I ^(Q)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
^(R)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
^(S)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
¹³ Therefore ^(T)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.

¹⁴ Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
^(U)As you have spoken.
^15 (V)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
^(W)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.