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Amos 5:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. "

Amos 5:14

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12 For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

16 Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

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Amos 5:1

"Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:"

Amos 5:2

"“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”"

Amos 5:3

"For the Lord GOD says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”"

Amos 5:4

"For the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;"

Amos 5:5

"but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing."

Amos 5:6

"Seek the LORD, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel."

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