Amos 5 NKJV NIV Parallel

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

1Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:

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.

2"Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift 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.”

3This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Israel: "Your city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left; your town that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left."

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

4This is what the LORD says to 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.

5do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced 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, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.

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

7There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast 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.

8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land-- the LORD is his name.

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

9With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.

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

10There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.

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.

11You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

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

12For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

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

13Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.

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

14Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.

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, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant 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 LORD God Almighty, says: "There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.

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

17There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will 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.

18Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, 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 as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite 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, not light-- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?

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

21"I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.

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

22Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.

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

23Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

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

24But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

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

25"Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

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

26You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god -- which you made for yourselves.

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

27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.

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