Amos Verse by Verse

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

 

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Amos 5:2 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:3 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:4
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

 

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Amos 5:5
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.

 

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Amos 5:6 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

 

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Amos 5:8
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:

 

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Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

 

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Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

 

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Amos 5:11 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:12 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:13 (KJV) Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

 

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Amos 5:14 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:15 (KJV) 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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Amos 5:16
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.

 

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Amos 5:17
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

 

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Amos 5:18
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.

 

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Amos 5:19
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.

 

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Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?