Amos 5

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Hear this word which I utter over you, a lament, O house of Israel:	1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 She is fallen, to rise no more, the virgin Israel; She lies abandoned upon her land, with no one to raise her up.	2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord GOD: The city that marched out with a thousand shall be left without a hundred, Another that marched out with a hundred shall be left with ten, of the house of Israel.	3 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.
4 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: Seek me, that you may live,	4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5 but do not seek Bethel; Do not come to Gilgal, and do not cross to Beer-sheba. For Gilgal shall be led into exile, and Bethel shall become nought.	5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek the LORD, that you may live, lest he come upon the house of Joseph like a fire That shall consume, with none to quench it for the house of Israel:	6 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.
7 Woe to those who turn judgment to wormwood and cast justice to the ground!	7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 He 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 out upon the surface of the earth;	8 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:
9 Who flashes destruction upon the strong, and brings ruin upon the fortress; whose name is LORD.	9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him who reproves at the gate and abhor him who speaks the truth.	10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11 Therefore, because you have trampled upon the weak and exacted of them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them! Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine!	11 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.
12 Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, repelling the needy at the gate!	12 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.
13 Therefore the prudent man is silent at this time, for it is an evil time.	13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim!	14 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.
15 Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.	15 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.
16 Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: In every square there shall be lamentation, and in every street they shall cry, Alas! Alas! They shall summon the farmers to wail and professional mourners to lament,	16 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.
17 And in every vineyard there shall be lamentation when I pass through your midst, says the LORD.	17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
18 Woe to those who yearn for the day of the LORD! What will this day of the LORD mean for you? Darkness and not light!	18 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.
19 As if a man went to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; Or as if on entering his house he were to rest his hand against the wall, and a snake should bite him.	19 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.
20 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness and not light, gloom without any brightness?	20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I spurn your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities;	21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Your cereal offerings I will not accept, nor consider your stall-fed peace offerings.	22 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.
23 Away with your noisy songs! I will not listen to the melodies of your harps. But if you would offer me holocausts,	23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream.	24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?	25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You will carry away Sakkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star god, the images that you have made for yourselves;	26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27 For I will exile you beyond Damascus, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts by name.	27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.