{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "amos", "chapter": 5 }, "data": { "n": 5, "bookSlug": "amos", "bookCode": "AMO", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "AMO-5:1", "verseRef": "AMO.5.1", "text": "Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "AMO-5:2", "verseRef": "AMO.5.2", "text": "“The virgin of Israel has fallen;\nShe shall rise no more.\nShe is cast down on her land;\nthere is no one to raise her up.”" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "AMO-5:3", "verseRef": "AMO.5.3", "text": "For thus says the Lord Yahweh:\n“The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,\nand that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "AMO-5:4", "verseRef": "AMO.5.4", "text": "For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:\n“Seek me, and you will live;" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "AMO-5:5", "verseRef": "AMO.5.5", "text": "but don’t seek Bethel,\nnor enter into Gilgal,\nand don’t pass to Beersheba:\nfor Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,\nand Bethel shall come to nothing." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "AMO-5:6", "verseRef": "AMO.5.6", "text": "Seek Yahweh, and you will live;\nlest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,\nand it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "AMO-5:7", "verseRef": "AMO.5.7", "text": "You who turn justice to wormwood,\nand cast down righteousness to the earth:" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "AMO-5:8", "verseRef": "AMO.5.8", "text": "seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,\nand turns the shadow of death into the morning,\nand makes the day dark with night;\nwho calls for the waters of the sea,\nand pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name," },{ "n": 9, "refId": "AMO-5:9", "verseRef": "AMO.5.9", "text": "who brings sudden destruction on the strong,\nso that destruction comes on the fortress." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "AMO-5:10", "verseRef": "AMO.5.10", "text": "They hate him who reproves in the gate,\nand they abhor him who speaks blamelessly." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "AMO-5:11", "verseRef": "AMO.5.11", "text": "Therefore, because you trample on the poor,\nand take taxes from him of wheat:\nYou have built houses of cut stone,\nbut you will not dwell in them.\nYou have planted pleasant vineyards,\nbut you shall not drink their wine." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "AMO-5:12", "verseRef": "AMO.5.12", "text": "For I know how many your offenses,\nand how great are your sins—\nyou who afflict the just,\nwho take a bribe,\nand who turn away the needy in the courts." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "AMO-5:13", "verseRef": "AMO.5.13", "text": "Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,\nfor it is an evil time." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "AMO-5:14", "verseRef": "AMO.5.14", "text": "Seek good, and not evil,\nthat you may live;\nand so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,\nas you say." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "AMO-5:15", "verseRef": "AMO.5.15", "text": "Hate evil, love good,\nand establish justice in the courts.\nIt may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "AMO-5:16", "verseRef": "AMO.5.16", "text": "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:\n“Wailing will be in all the wide ways;\nand they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’\nand they will call the farmer to mourning,\nand those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "AMO-5:17", "verseRef": "AMO.5.17", "text": "In all vineyards there will be wailing;\nfor I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "AMO-5:18", "verseRef": "AMO.5.18", "text": "“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!\nWhy do you long for the day of Yahweh?\nIt is darkness,\nand not light." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "AMO-5:19", "verseRef": "AMO.5.19", "text": "As if a man fled from a lion,\nand a bear met him;\nOr he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,\nand a snake bit him." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "AMO-5:20", "verseRef": "AMO.5.20", "text": "Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light?\nEven very dark, and no brightness in it?" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "AMO-5:21", "verseRef": "AMO.5.21", "text": "I hate, I despise your feasts,\nand I can’t stand your solemn assemblies." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "AMO-5:22", "verseRef": "AMO.5.22", "text": "Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,\nI will not accept them;\nneither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "AMO-5:23", "verseRef": "AMO.5.23", "text": "Take away from me the noise of your songs!\nI will not listen to the music of your harps." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "AMO-5:24", "verseRef": "AMO.5.24", "text": "But let justice roll on like rivers,\nand righteousness like a mighty stream." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "AMO-5:25", "verseRef": "AMO.5.25", "text": "“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "AMO-5:26", "verseRef": "AMO.5.26", "text": "You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "AMO-5:27", "verseRef": "AMO.5.27", "text": "Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/amos/chapters/5", "book": "/v1/library/books/amos/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/amos/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }