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Amos 5:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? "
Amos 5:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
18 “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
20 Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
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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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