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AMO 5:1
Amos 5:1
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you,
even a lamentation, O house of Israel. |
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AMO 5:2
Amos 5:2
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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no
more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. |
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AMO 5:3
Amos 5:3
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For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went
out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred
shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. |
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AMO 5:4
Amos 5:4
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel,
Seek ye me, and ye shall live: |
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AMO 5:5
Amos 5:5
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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal,
and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel
shall come to nought. |
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AMO 5:6
Amos 5:6
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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. |
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AMO 5:7
Amos 5:7
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave
off righteousness in the earth, |
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AMO 5:8
Amos 5:8
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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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AMO 5:9
Amos 5:9
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That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. |
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AMO 5:10
Amos 5:10
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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and
they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. |
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AMO 5:11
Amos 5:11
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon
the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn
stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but
ye shall not drink wine of them. |
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AMO 5:12
Amos 5:12
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For I know your manifold transgressions and
your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside
the poor in the gate from their right. |
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AMO 5:13
Amos 5:13
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in
that time; for it is an evil time. |
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AMO 5:14
Amos 5:14
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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and
so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. |
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AMO 5:15
Amos 5:15
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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish
judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto
the remnant of Joseph. |
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AMO 5:16
Amos 5:16
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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord,
saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways,
Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful
of lamentation to wailing. |
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AMO 5:17
Amos 5:17
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And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I
will pass through thee, saith the LORD. |
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AMO 5:18
Amos 5:18
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD!
to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. |
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AMO 5:19
Amos 5:19
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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear
met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
bit him. |
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AMO 5:20
Amos 5:20
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Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and
not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
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AMO 5:21
Amos 5:21
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will
not smell in your solemn assemblies. |
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AMO 5:22
Amos 5:22
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Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your
meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings
of your fat beasts. |
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AMO 5:23
Amos 5:23
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. |
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AMO 5:24
Amos 5:24
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream. |
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AMO 5:25
Amos 5:25
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? |
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AMO 5:26
Amos 5:26
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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch
and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. |
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AMO 5:27
Amos 5:27
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. |
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