Amos 5
4. This is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live;
5. do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing. "
6. Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire; it will devour, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
14. Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
15. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
18. Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light.
19. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
20. Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light-- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21. "I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies.
22. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
23. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Amos 6
1. Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
5. You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
6. You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Amos 8
11. "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land-- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
Amos 9
11. "In that day I will restore David's fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be,
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