Amos 5 (NET)

Amos 5:1¹Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 19:1Jer 7:29Jer 9:10Jer 9:17Amos 3:1Amos 4:1Amos 5:16Ezek 19:14Ezek 26:17Ezek 27:2

Amos 5:2²“The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:172 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 17:16Amos 7:2-5Amos 8:14Amos 9:11Ezek 16:36-37Hos 14:1Hos 6:2Isa 14:21

Amos 5:3³The Sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:16Isa 10:22Isa 6:13Rom 9:27Deut 28:62Deut 4:27Isa 1:9Amos 6:9

Amos 5:4⁴The Lord says this to the family of Israel: “Seek me so you can live!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 15:2Zeph 2:3Jer 29:12-13Isa 55:3Ps 14:2Isa 55:6-7Matt 7:8Ps 105:3-41 Chr 28:9Lam 3:25-26

Amos 5:5⁵Do not seek Bethel. Do not visit Gilgal. Do not journey down to Beer Sheba. For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile, and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:15Amos 4:4Amos 8:14Gen 21:331 Cor 1:281 Cor 2:6Amos 7:17Rev 18:171 Sam 11:141 Sam 7:16

Amos 5:6⁶Seek the Lord so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:47-48Ezek 33:11Isa 55:6Amos 5:14Amos 5:4Gen 48:8-20Mark 9:43-48Zech 10:61 Kgs 11:282 Sam 19:20

Amos 5:7⁷The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 6:12Amos 5:11-12Deut 29:18Ezek 3:20Hos 10:4Zeph 1:6Ezek 18:24Ezek 33:12-13Ezek 33:18Hab 1:12-14

Amos 5:8⁸But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 4:13Job 9:9Amos 9:6Amos 8:9Ps 104:20Job 38:31-32Exod 10:21-23Job 12:22Job 38:12-13Ps 104:6-9

Amos 5:9⁹He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 13:172 Kgs 13:25Heb 11:34Jer 37:10Mic 5:11

Amos 5:10¹⁰The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:8Isa 29:21John 8:45-47Jer 17:16-171 Kgs 18:171 Kgs 21:202 Chr 24:20-222 Chr 25:162 Chr 36:16Amos 7:10-17

Amos 5:11¹¹Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:30Mic 6:15Zeph 1:13Jas 2:6Hag 1:6Rev 11:8-10Amos 3:15-4:1Mic 2:2Mic 3:1-3Deut 28:38-39

Amos 5:12¹²Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 2:6-7Amos 5:10Isa 1:231 Sam 8:3Acts 7:52Jas 5:4Mal 3:5Ps 26:9-102 Kgs 17:7-17Acts 3:13-14

Amos 5:13¹³For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:1Eccl 3:7Eph 5:15-16Hos 4:4Mic 2:3Amos 6:10Eccl 9:12Eph 6:13Hab 3:16Isa 36:21

Amos 5:14¹⁴Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies just might be with you, as you claim he is.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:9Matt 6:33Mic 3:11Mic 6:8Phil 4:8-92 Tim 4:221 Chr 28:20Gen 39:2-3Isa 48:1-2Ps 34:12-16

Amos 5:15¹⁵Hate what is wrong, love what is right. Promote justice at the city gate. Maybe the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:93 John 1:11Joel 2:14Ps 97:101 Thess 5:21-22Mic 5:7-8Rom 8:7Mic 5:31 Kgs 20:312 Kgs 19:4

Amos 5:16¹⁶Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:11Jer 9:17-20Jer 9:10Amos 3:13Amos 5:27Amos 8:10Isa 15:2-5Isa 15:8Isa 22:12Jer 4:31

Amos 5:17¹⁷In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:12Isa 16:10Jer 48:33Exod 12:23Hos 9:1-2Isa 32:10-12Joel 3:17Nah 1:12Nah 1:15Zech 9:8

Amos 5:18¹⁸Woe to those who wish for the day of the Lord! Why do you want the Lord ’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:15Joel 2:1-2Joel 2:31Jer 30:7Mal 4:1Isa 24:11-12Isa 5:19Isa 5:30Isa 9:19Mal 3:1-2

Amos 5:19¹⁹Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 24:17-18Jer 15:2-3Acts 28:4Jer 48:43-441 Kgs 20:29-30Amos 9:1-2Job 20:24-25

Amos 5:20²⁰Don’t you realize the Lord ’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light— gloomy blackness, not bright light?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:10Ezek 34:12Zeph 1:15Job 10:21-22Job 3:4-6Jude 1:13Matt 22:13Nah 1:8Rev 16:10

Amos 5:21²¹“I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:11-16Prov 28:9Lev 26:31Isa 66:3Jer 6:20Prov 15:8Hos 8:13Gen 8:21Matt 23:13Prov 21:27

Amos 5:22²²Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 6:6-7Amos 4:4-5Isa 66:3Lev 7:12-15Ps 107:21-22Ps 116:17Ps 50:23Ps 50:8-14

Amos 5:23²³Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 6:5Amos 8:10Amos 8:3

Amos 5:24²⁴Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 6:8Jer 22:3Hos 6:6Prov 21:3Mark 12:32-34Amos 5:14-15Amos 5:7Job 29:12-17

Amos 5:25²⁵You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:42-43Ezek 20:8Neh 9:18Josh 24:14Lev 17:7Neh 9:21Deut 32:17-19Ezek 20:16Ezek 20:24Hos 9:9-10

Amos 5:26²⁶You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:12-13Lev 20:2-51 Kgs 11:33Lev 18:21

Amos 5:27²⁷and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord. He is called the God of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:6Acts 7:43Amos 4:132 Kgs 15:29