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Amos 5
Amos 5 has 388 cross-references from its 27 verses to other passages (142 with at least 4 reader votes), and 370 verses elsewhere point back to it. Its strongest links: Amos 5:24 → Micah 6:8 (32 votes), Amos 5:24 → Jeremiah 22:3 (26 votes) and Amos 5:24 → Proverbs 21:3 (23 votes). It connects with 55 other books.
Amos 5 (BSB)
A Lamentation against Israel
1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2“Fallen is Virgin Israel,
never to rise again.
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.”
3This is what the Lord GOD says:
“The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have but a hundred left,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
A Call to Repentance
4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel:
“Seek Me and live!
5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal;
do not journey to Beersheba,
for Gilgal will surely go into exile,
6Seek the LORD and live,
or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph;
it will devour everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7There are those who turn justice into wormwood
and cast righteousness to the ground.
8He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
who turns darkness into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who summons the waters of the sea
and pours them over the face of the earth—
the LORD is His name—
9He flashes destruction on the strong,
so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate
and despise him who speaks with integrity.
11Therefore, because you trample on the poor
and exact from him a tax of grain,
you will never live
in the stone houses you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards you have planted.
12For I know that your transgressions are many
and your sins are numerous.
You oppress the righteous by taking bribes;
you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times,
for the days are evil.
14Seek good, not evil,
so that you may live.
And the LORD, the God of Hosts,
will be with you, as you have claimed.
15Hate evil and love good;
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Woe to Rebellious Israel
16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:
“There will be wailing in all the public squares
and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.
The farmer will be summoned to mourn,
and the mourners to wail.
17There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
for I will pass through your midst,”
says the LORD.
18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD!
What will the Day of the LORD be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.
19It will be like a man who flees from a lion,
only to encounter a bear,
or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall,
only to be bitten by a snake.
20Will not the Day of the LORD
be darkness and not light,
even gloom with no brightness in it?
21“I hate, I despise your feasts!
I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
for your peace offerings of fattened cattle
I will have no regard.
23Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24But let justice roll on like a river,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Most connected verses in Amos 5
- Amos 5:21 44 links, 28 strong
- Amos 5:4 30 links, 28 strong
- Amos 5:15 70 links, 26 strong
- Amos 5:8 44 links, 26 strong
- Amos 5:14 36 links, 20 strong
Which books connect to Amos 5?
- Isaiah 96
- Amos 60
- Jeremiah 62
- Psalms 42
- Hosea 38
- Proverbs 24
- Micah 31
- Job 34
- Ezekiel 39
- Zephaniah 13
- Joel 17
- Matthew 14
Verse links between Amos 5 and each book, either direction, any number of votes.