Amos 5:18 ¶ Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD, For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light;
Amos 5:19 As when a man flees from a lion And a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites him.
Amos 5:21 ¶ "I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 "Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
Amos 5:23 "Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
Amos 5:24 "But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:26 "You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.
Amos 5:27 "Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Amos 6:1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion And to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria, The distinguished men of the foremost of nations, To whom the house of Israel comes.
Amos 6:2 Go over to Calneh and look, And go from there to Hamath the great, Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, Or is their territory greater than yours?
Amos 6:4 ¶ Those who recline on beds of ivory And sprawl on their couches, And eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall,
Amos 6:5 Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have composed songs for themselves,
Amos 6:6 Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.
Amos 6:7 Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles, And the sprawlers' banqueting will pass away.
Amos 6:8 ¶ The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, the LORD God of hosts has declared: "I loathe the arrogance of Jacob, And detest his citadels; Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains."
Amos 6:9 And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.
Amos 6:10 Then one's uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer, "Keep quiet. For the name of the LORD is not to be mentioned."
Amos 6:11 For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
Amos 6:12 ¶ Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
Amos 6:13 You who rejoice in Lodebar, And say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"