SCRIPTURE
Amos 5:10-17
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- 5:10
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- 5:12
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- 5:13
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
- 5:14
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
- 5:15
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- 5:16
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
- 5:17
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.