Amos 5 NKJV ISV Parallel

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1Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

1"Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: 'A dirge, house of Israel:

2The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up.

2Fallen is Israel the virgin—never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

3For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

3"For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'The city that is sending out a thousand will have a hundred left; The city that is sending out a hundred will have ten left of the house of Israel.'"

4For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live;

4"For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: 'Seek me and live,

5But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.

5but don't seek Bethel. Don't go to Gilgal, and don't pass over to Beer-sheba. Because Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will come to nothing.

6Seek the LORD and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel—

6Seek the LORD and live! Otherwise, he may break out like a fire in the house of Joseph and devour Bethel, and there will be no one to extinguish it.

7You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

7Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:

8He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.

8Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.

9He rains ruin upon the strong, So that fury comes upon the fortress.

9It is he who is raining sudden destruction upon the strong like lightning, so that ruin comes upon the fortress.

10They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

10They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

11Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

11Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink—

12For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

12and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court —

13Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time.

13therefore the prudent person remains silent at such a time, for the time is evil.

14Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.

14Pursue good and not evil, so that you may live, and this is what will happen: The LORD God of the Heavenly Armies will be with you, as you have been claiming.

15Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

15Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in court— perhaps the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, will be gracious to the survivors of Joseph.'"

16Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.

16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says: 'There will be dirges in all of the streets; and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish. They will call the farmer to mourning and those who lament to grieve.

17In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through you,” Says the LORD.

17And in all of the vineyards there will be mourning when I pass through your midst,' says the LORD."

18Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light.

18"Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.

19It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him!

19It will be like a man who runs from a lion, only to encounter a bear; or who comes home, leans his hand against a wall, and a serpent bites him!

20Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light— pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?"

21“I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

21"I hate—I despise—your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

22Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

22And if you send up burnt offerings to me as well as your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I consider your peace offerings of fattened cattle.

23Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

23Spare me your noisy singing— I will not listen to your musical instruments.

24But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

24"But let justice roll on like many waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing river.

25“Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

25"Was it to me that you brought offerings and gifts in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel?

26You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.

26And you carried the tent of your king — and Saturn, your star god idols that you crafted for yourselves.

27Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,” Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

27So I will cause you to be taken captive beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is God of the Heavenly Armies.

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