RLT - Amos - 5

5:1  Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

5:2  The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

5:3  For thus saith the Lord Yhwh; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

5:4  For thus saith Yhwh unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

5:5  But seek not Beth–el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer–sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth–el shall come to nought.

5:6  Seek Yhwh, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth–el.

5:7  Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

5:8  Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Yhwh is his name:

5:9  That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

5:10  They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

5:11  Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

5:12  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

5:13  Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

5:14  Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so Yhwh, the God of Armies, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

5:15  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Yhwh God of Armies will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

5:16  Therefore Yhwh, the God of Armies, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

5:17  And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith Yhwh.

5:18  Woe unto you that desire the day of Yhwh! to what end is it for you? the day of Yhwh is darkness, and not light.

5:19  As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

5:20  Shall not the day of Yhwh be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

5:21  I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

5:22  Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

5:23  Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

5:24  But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

5:25  Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

5:26  But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

5:27  Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Yhwh, whose name is The God of Armies.