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Amos 5:14-17 Seek good, not evil,    that you may live.Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,    just as you say he is.15 Hate evil, love good;    maintain justice in the courts.Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy    on the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says: “There will be wailingContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 5:7-13. There are those who turn justice into bitterness    and cast righteousness to the ground. 8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion,    who turns midnight into dawn    and darkens day into night,who calls for the waters of the sea    and pours them out over the face of the land—    the Lord is his name.9 With a blinding flash he destroysContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 5:1-6. Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you: 2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel,    never to rise again,deserted in her own land,    with no one to lift her up.” 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel: “Your city that marches out a thousand strong    will have only a hundred left;your town that marchesContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 4:9-13 “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,    destroying them with blight and mildew.Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,    yet you have not returned to me,”declares the Lord. 10 “I sent plagues among you    as I did to Egypt.I killed your young men with the sword,    along with your captured horses.I filled your nostrils with the stenchContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 4:1-8. Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,    you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy    and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”2 The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:    “The time will surely comewhen you will be taken away with hooks,    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]3 You will each goContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 3:9-15 Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod    and to the fortresses of Egypt:“Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;    see the great unrest within her    and the oppression among her people.” 10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,    “who store up in their fortresses    what they have plundered and looted.” 11 Therefore this is what theContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 3:1-8 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: 2 “You only have I chosen    of all the families of the earth;therefore I will punish you    for all your sins.” 3 Do two walk together    unless they have agreed to do so?4 Does a lionContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”

Amos 2:9-16 “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,    though they were tall as the cedars    and strong as the oaks.I destroyed their fruit above    and their roots below.10 I brought you up out of Egypt    and led you forty years in the wilderness    to give you the land of the Amorites. 11 “I also raised up prophets from among your children    andContinue reading “Prayers from Amos”