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    Amos · 27 verses

    Amos 5

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    Here the altar is turned upside down: feasts stink, offerings are refused, songs become noise, and justice is the one thing that may still flow like a river.

    A remnant, if they seekvv. 1–17

    Amos begins with a lament for Israel already fallen: an army of a thousand returns as a hundred, and a hundred as ten. The command is stark—seek the LORD and live—but Bethel, Gilgal, and Beersheba are no safe pilgrimage; Gilgal will go into exile and Bethel will come to nothing. The indictment then settles at the gate, where justice has been made bitter, the poor trampled, bribes accepted, and the prudent reduced to silence because the days are evil. Still, good may be sought, evil hated, and justice established there—perhaps with grace left for Joseph's remnant. The result is not a tidy reforming scene but wailing in squares, streets, and vineyards, with the LORD passing through the midst.

    The day that arrives with teethvv. 18–27

    Those longing for the Day of the LORD are given an unusually poor bargain. It is darkness, not light: a man escapes a lion only to meet a bear, then reaches his own wall and finds a snake waiting there. The same reversal governs worship. Feasts stink, offerings are declined, harps are noise, and the acceptable liturgy is justice rolling on like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. The passage ends with Sakkuth and Kaiwan carried along as idols, followed by exile beyond Damascus—a remarkably crowded exit for a people who had been singing.

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    1. Amos 5:1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

    2. Amos 5:2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

    3. Amos 5:3This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

    4. Amos 5:4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

    5. Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

    6. Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

    7. Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

    8. Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

    9. Amos 5:9He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

    10. Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

    11. Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

    12. Amos 5:12For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

    13. Amos 5:13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

    14. Amos 5:14Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

    15. Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

    16. Amos 5:16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

    17. Amos 5:17There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

    18. Amos 5:18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

    19. Amos 5:19It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

    20. Amos 5:20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

    21. Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

    22. Amos 5:22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

    23. Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

    24. Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

    25. Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

    26. Amos 5:26You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

    27. Amos 5:27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

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    • 24Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
    • 24Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
    • 24Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
    • 24Mark 12:32–34“Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,
    • 24Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
    • 4Zephaniah 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
    • 42 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
    • 24Amos 5:14–15Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
    • 4Jeremiah 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
    • 24Job 29:12–17because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
    • 24Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
    • 14Joshua 1:9Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
    • 8Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
    • 14Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
    • 21Isaiah 1:11–16“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
    • 4Psalms 14:2The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

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