Amos 5:10-26
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10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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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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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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13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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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.
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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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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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17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
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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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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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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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21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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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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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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24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.