Amos 5

“Seek Me So That You May Live”

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

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

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

But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

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Amos 5:6

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 Beth-el.

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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.

Precepts

Psalms 37:14

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Amos 5:11

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.

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Amos 5:12

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.

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Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

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Amos 5:14

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.

Psalms 34:13-14 Psalms 97:10 Proverbs 8:13 Romans 12:9

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Amos 5:15

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.

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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.

Destruction

Isaiah 13:19 Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 26:20 Isaiah 34:2 Isaiah 66:15 Jeremiah 15:2-3 Jeremiah 49:17 Jeremiah 50:39 Ezekiel 21:9 Joel 2:1 Joel 2:3 Zephaniah 1:14-18 2 Esdras 15:11 Matthew 10:34 Matthew 24:37 2 Peter 3:10 Revelation 9:12

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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.

Breakdown

lion represents the Arab nations. bear represents the Russians. went into the house The US troops all returning to America. serpent represents the Chinese.

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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?

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Amos 5:21

¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

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Amos 5:22

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.

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Amos 5:23

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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Amos 5:24

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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Amos 5:25

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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Amos 5:26

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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Amos 5:27

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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