Amos 5:1-12 ▼

1 Hear this word that I am bearing to you, || A lamentation, O house of Israel:

2 “Fallen, not to rise again, has the virgin of Israel, || Left on her land—she has none [to] raise [her] up.”

3 For thus said Lord YHWH: “The city that is going out one thousand, || Leaves one hundred, || And that which is going out one hundred, || Leaves ten to the house of Israel.”

4 For thus said YHWH to the house of Israel: “Seek Me, and live,

5 And do not seek Beth-El, and do not enter Gilgal, || And do not pass through Beer-Sheba, || For Gilgal utterly removes, || And Beth-El becomes vanity.

6 Seek YHWH, and live, || Lest He prosper as fire [against] the house of Joseph, || And it has consumed, || And there is no quencher for Beth-El—

7 You who are turning judgment to wormwood, || And have put down righteousness to the earth!”

8 The Maker of the Pleiades and Orion, || And He who is turning death-shade to the morning—And He has made day [as] dark [as] night—Who is calling to the waters of the sea, || And pours them on the face of the earth, || YHWH [is] His Name;

9 Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, || And the spoiled comes against a fortress.

10 They have hated a reprover in the gate, || And they detest a plain speaker.

11 Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, || And the tribute of grain you take from him, || Houses of hewn work you have built, || And you do not dwell in them, || Desirable vineyards you have planted, || And you do not drink their wine.

12 For I have known—many [are] your transgressions, || And mighty your sins, || Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, || And you turned aside the needy in the gate.