Amos 5:14-24

14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
15 Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore 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.
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

The Day of the LORD

18 Woe 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.
19 It 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.
20 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even 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.
23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

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Cross References 33

  • 1. S ver 6
  • 2. S Psalms 52:3; S Psalms 97:10; Romans 12:9
  • 3. S Genesis 18:25
  • 4. S Isaiah 1:17; S Isaiah 29:21; Zechariah 8:16
  • 5. S Jeremiah 36:3
  • 6. S Joel 2:14
  • 7. Micah 5:7,8; Micah 7:18
  • 8. Jeremiah 9:17; Amos 8:3; Zephaniah 1:10
  • 9. Jeremiah 7:34
  • 10. S Joel 1:11
  • 11. S Exodus 11:6
  • 12. Exodus 12:12
  • 13. Isaiah 16:10; S Jeremiah 48:33
  • 14. S Isaiah 2:12; S Joel 1:15
  • 15. S Jeremiah 30:5
  • 16. S 1 Samuel 2:9; S Joel 2:2
  • 17. S Job 20:28; Isaiah 5:19,30; Jeremiah 30:7
  • 18. S Lamentations 3:10
  • 19. S Deuteronomy 32:24; Job 20:24; S Ecclesiastes 10:8; Isaiah 24:17-18; Jeremiah 15:2-3; Jeremiah 48:44
  • 20. S 1 Samuel 2:9
  • 21. S Isaiah 13:10; S Ezekiel 7:7; Obadiah 1:15; Zephaniah 1:15
  • 22. Jeremiah 44:4
  • 23. S Leviticus 26:31; S Hosea 2:11
  • 24. S Ezekiel 23:18; Isaiah 1:11-16
  • 25. Leviticus 26:31
  • 26. S Jeremiah 7:21
  • 27. S Psalms 40:6
  • 28. Jeremiah 14:12; S Amos 4:4; Micah 6:6-7
  • 29. Isaiah 1:11-16; S Isaiah 66:3
  • 30. Amos 6:5
  • 31. S Jeremiah 22:3
  • 32. S Isaiah 45:8
  • 33. Micah 6:8
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