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Amos 5:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? "
Amos 5:25
Verse in Context
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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.
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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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