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    Seek the Lord and live,
        or else God might rush like a fire against the house of Joseph.
        The fire will burn up Bethel, with no one to put it out.

Words of doom

    Doom to you who turn justice into poison,
        and throw righteousness to the ground!
    The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
        and turns deep darkness into the morning,
        and darkens the day into night;
    who summons the waters of the sea,
        and pours them out on the surface of the earth—
        this one’s name is the Lord

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Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

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Seek(A) the Lord and live,(B)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;(C)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel(D) will have no one to quench it.(E)

There are those who turn justice into bitterness(F)
    and cast righteousness(G) to the ground.(H)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(I)
    who turns midnight into dawn(J)
    and darkens day into night,(K)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(L)

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(A)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—
You who (B)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

He made the (C)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
(D)And makes the day dark as night;
He (E)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
(F)The Lord is His name.

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

He who made the (E)Pleiades and Orion,
    and turns deep darkness into the morning
    and (F)darkens the day into night,
who (G)calls for the waters of the sea
    (H)and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
(I)the Lord is his name;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit