{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:10:42.344Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Amos","bookSlug":"amos","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":9,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken on her land; there is none to raise her up."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For thus said the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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 to the remnant of Joseph."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas!  and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, said the LORD."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Woe to 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."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, said the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts."}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Amos 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/5 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}