{"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/dbt/amos/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:47:28.045Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Amos","bookSlug":"amos","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":9,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Seek Jehovah, and ye 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":"Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the strong, and bringeth destruction upon the fortress."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"as if a man fled 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 Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts."}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 5 (DBT)","markdown":"[Amos 5](https://primebible.com/dbt/amos/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/amos/5 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}