Amo 5 | EngLXX | STEP | Hear you⌃ this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The houseof Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.

‏ Amos 5

1 Hear you⌃ this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The houseof Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise. 2 The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up. 3 Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand,in it there shall be left a hundred, andin that out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel. 4 Wherefore thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek you⌃ me, and you⌃ shall live. 5 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath:for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not. 6 Seek you⌃ the Lord, and you⌃ shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and itdevour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel. 7 It is he that executes judgment in the heightabove, and he has established justice on the earth: 8 who makes all things, and changesthem, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for thewater of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name: 9 who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress. 10 They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech. 11 Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you⌃ have receivedof them choice gifts; you⌃ have built polished houses, but you⌃ shall not dwell in them; you⌃ have planteddesirable vineyards, but you⌃ shall not drink the wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just,taking bribes, and turning asidethe judgment of the poor in the gates. 13 Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that you⌃ may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be withyou, as you⌃ have said, 15 We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore you⌃ judgment in the gates; that theLord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty; In all the streetsshall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shallbe called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining. 17 Andthere shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of you, saysthe Lord. 18 Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereasit is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he shouldspring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. 20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not thisday gloom without brightness? 21 I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smellyour meat-offerings in your general assemblies. 22 Wherefore if you⌃ should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat-offerings, I willnot acceptthem: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings. 23 Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments. 24 But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent. 25 Have you⌃ offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in thewilderness? 26 Yes, you⌃ took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the imagesof them which you⌃ made for yourselves. 27 And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.