Amos 5 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

“Seek Me So That You May Live”

5 Hear this word which I am taking up for you as a (A)song of mourning, house of Israel:
2 She has fallen, she will (B)not rise again—
The (C)virgin Israel.
She lies unnoticed on her land;
There is (D)no one to raise her up.

3 For this is what the Lord [a]God says:

“The city which goes forth a thousand strong
Will have a (E)hundred left,
And the one which goes forth a hundred strong
Will have (F)ten left to the house of Israel.”

4 For this is what the Lord says to the house of Israel:

“(G)Seek Me (H)so that you may live.
5 But do not [b]resort to (I)Bethel
And do not come to (J)Gilgal,
Nor cross over to (K)Beersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity
And Bethel will [c]come to nothing.
6 (L)Seek the Lord so that you may live,
Or He will break through like a (M)fire, [d]house of Joseph,
And it will consume with no one to extinguish it for Bethel,
7 For those who turn (N)justice into wormwood,
And [e]throw righteousness to the earth.”

8 He who made the (O)Pleiades and Orion,
And (P)changes deep darkness into morning,
[f]Who also (Q)darkens day into night,
Who (R)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The (S)Lord is His name.
9 It is He who (T)makes destruction flash upon the strong,
So that (U)destruction comes upon the fortress.

10 They hate him who (V)rebukes in the [g]gate,
And they (W)despise him who speaks with integrity.
11 Therefore because you impose heavy [h]rent on the poor
And take a tribute of grain from them,
Though you have built (X)houses of cut stone,
Yet you will not live in them;
You have planted beautiful vineyards, yet you will (Y)not drink their wine.
12 For I know your offenses are many and your sins are great,
You who are (Z)hostile to the righteous and accept bribes,
And [i]turn away the poor from justice at the [j]gate.
13 Therefore at [k]such a time the prudent person (AA)keeps quiet, because it is an evil time.

14 Seek good and not evil, so that you may live;
And so may the Lord God of armies be with you,
(AB)Just as you have said!
15 (AC)Hate evil, love good,
And establish justice in the [l]gate!
Perhaps the Lord God of armies
(AD)Will be gracious to the (AE)remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore this is what the Lord God of armies, the Lord says:

“There is (AF)mourning in all the public squares,
And in all the streets they say, ‘Oh no! Oh no!’
They also call the (AG)farmer to mourning
And [m](AH)professional mourners to mourning rites.
17 And in all the (AI)vineyards there is mourning,
Because I will pass through the midst of you,” says the Lord.

18 Woe to you who are longing for the (AJ)day of the Lord,
For what [n]purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be (AK)darkness and not light;
19 As when a man (AL)flees from a lion
And a bear confronts him,
[o]Or he goes home, leans with his hand against the wall,
And a snake bites him.
20 Will the day of the Lord not be (AM)darkness instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?

21 “I hate, I (AN)reject your festivals,
Nor do I [p](AO)delight in your festive assemblies.
22 Even though you (AP)offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the (AQ)peace offerings of your fattened oxen.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
24 But let (AR)justice roll out like waters,
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 “[q](AS)Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel? 26 (AT)You also carried along [r]Sikkuth your king and [s]Kiyyun, your images, [t]the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. 27 Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.

Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. Amos 5:5 Lit seek
  3. Amos 5:5 Lit be
  4. Amos 5:6 Or in the house
  5. Amos 5:7 Lit they have thrown
  6. Amos 5:8 Lit And He darkened
  7. Amos 5:10 I.e., the place where court was held
  8. Amos 5:11 Or tax
  9. Amos 5:12 Lit they turn
  10. Amos 5:12 I.e., the place where court was held
  11. Amos 5:13 Lit that time
  12. Amos 5:15 I.e., the place where court was held
  13. Amos 5:16 Lit those who know mourning
  14. Amos 5:18 Lit will this be to you, the day
  15. Amos 5:19 Or Then
  16. Amos 5:21 Lit like to smell your
  17. Amos 5:25 Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering
  18. Amos 5:26 Or Sakkuth (Saturn), or the tabernacle of your Moloch
  19. Amos 5:26 Or Kaiwan (Saturn), or stands of
  20. Amos 5:26 Or your star gods

Cross references

  1. Amos 5:1 : Jer 7:29; 9:10, 17; Ezek 19:1
  2. Amos 5:2 : Amos 8:14
  3. Amos 5:2 : Jer 14:17
  4. Amos 5:2 : Is 51:18; Jer 50:32
  5. Amos 5:3 : Is 6:13
  6. Amos 5:3 : Amos 6:9
  7. Amos 5:4 : Deut 4:29; 32:46, 47; Jer 29:13
  8. Amos 5:4 : Is 55:3
  9. Amos 5:5 : 1 Kin 12:28, 29; Amos 3:14; 4:4; 7:10, 13
  10. Amos 5:5 : 1 Sam 7:16; 11:14
  11. Amos 5:5 : Gen 21:31-33; Amos 8:14
  12. Amos 5:6 : Is 55:3, 6, 7; Amos 5:14
  13. Amos 5:6 : Deut 4:24
  14. Amos 5:7 : Amos 2:3; 5:12; 6:12
  15. Amos 5:8 : Job 9:9; 38:31
  16. Amos 5:8 : Job 12:22; 38:12; Is 42:16
  17. Amos 5:8 : Ps 104:20
  18. Amos 5:8 : Ps 104:6-9; Amos 9:6
  19. Amos 5:8 : Amos 4:13
  20. Amos 5:9 : Is 29:5; Amos 2:14
  21. Amos 5:9 : Mic 5:11
  22. Amos 5:10 : Is 29:21; Amos 5:15
  23. Amos 5:10 : 1 Kin 22:8; Is 59:15; Jer 17:16-18
  24. Amos 5:11 : Amos 3:15; 6:11
  25. Amos 5:11 : Mic 6:15
  26. Amos 5:12 : Is 1:23; 5:23; Amos 2:6
  27. Amos 5:13 : Eccl 3:7; Hos 4:4
  28. Amos 5:14 : Mic 3:11
  29. Amos 5:15 : Ps 97:10; Rom 12:9
  30. Amos 5:15 : Joel 2:14
  31. Amos 5:15 : Mic 5:3, 7, 8
  32. Amos 5:16 : Jer 9:10, 18-20; Amos 8:3
  33. Amos 5:16 : Joel 1:11
  34. Amos 5:16 : 2 Chr 35:25; Jer 9:17
  35. Amos 5:17 : Is 16:10; Jer 48:33
  36. Amos 5:18 : Is 5:19; Jer 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31
  37. Amos 5:18 : Is 5:30; Joel 2:2
  38. Amos 5:19 : Job 20:24; Is 24:17, 18; Jer 15:2, 3; 48:44
  39. Amos 5:20 : Is 13:10; Zeph 1:15
  40. Amos 5:21 : Is 1:11-16; 66:3; Amos 4:4, 5; 8:10
  41. Amos 5:21 : Lev 26:31; Jer 14:12; Hos 5:6
  42. Amos 5:22 : Is 66:3; Mic 6:6, 7
  43. Amos 5:22 : Lev 7:11-15; Amos 4:5
  44. Amos 5:24 : Jer 22:3; Ezek 45:9; Mic 6:8
  45. Amos 5:25 : Deut 32:17; Josh 24:14; Neh 9:18-21; Acts 7:42, 43
  46. Amos 5:26 : Acts 7:43

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