Amos 5

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1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.21 cross-references: Ezekiel 19:1, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10, Ezekiel 28:12
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.34 cross-references: Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 18:13, Isaiah 43:17, Jeremiah 51:64, Isaiah 51:17–18
3For thus saith the Lord God; 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.9 cross-references: Isaiah 10:22, Ezekiel 12:16, Isaiah 6:13, Romans 9:27, Deuteronomy 4:27
4For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:30 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 15:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Jeremiah 29:12–13, Psalms 14:2, Isaiah 55:3
5But 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.32 cross-references: Hosea 4:15, Amos 4:4, Amos 8:14, Genesis 21:33, 1 Samuel 7:16
6Seek the Lord, 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.31 cross-references: Isaiah 55:6, Amos 5:4, Amos 5:14, Mark 9:43–48, Ezekiel 33:11
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,30 cross-references: Amos 6:12, Hosea 10:4, Ezekiel 3:20, Zephaniah 1:6, Amos 5:11–12
8Seek 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: The Lord is his name:40 cross-references: Amos 4:13, Job 9:9, Amos 9:6, Amos 8:9, Psalms 104:20
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.8 cross-references: Hebrews 11:34, Micah 5:11, 2 Kings 13:25, Jeremiah 37:10, 2 Kings 13:17
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.37 cross-references: 1 Kings 22:8, Isaiah 29:21, Jeremiah 17:16–17, John 7:7, 1 Kings 18:17
11Forasmuch 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.50 cross-references: Micah 6:15, Zephaniah 1:13, Deuteronomy 28:30, James 2:6, Revelation 11:8–10
12For 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.44 cross-references: Amos 2:6–7, Amos 5:10, Isaiah 1:23, 1 Samuel 8:3, Malachi 3:5
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.36 cross-references: Hosea 4:4, Micah 2:3, Ephesians 5:15–16, 2 Timothy 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:7
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.33 cross-references: Joshua 1:9, Matthew 6:33, Micah 6:8, Micah 3:11, Philippians 4:8–9
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.62 cross-references: Romans 12:9, Psalms 97:10, 3 John 1:11, Joel 2:14, Micah 5:7–8
16Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, 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.32 cross-references: Joel 1:11, Jeremiah 9:17–20, Jeremiah 9:10, Joel 1:8, Revelation 18:19
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.16 cross-references: Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 48:33, Isaiah 16:10, Joel 3:17, Isaiah 32:10–12
18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.41 cross-references: Joel 1:15, Joel 2:1–2, Joel 2:31, Jeremiah 30:7, Malachi 4:1
19As 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.33 cross-references: Isaiah 24:17–18, Jeremiah 15:2–3, Acts 28:4, Jeremiah 48:43–44, Amos 9:1–2
20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?13 cross-references: Isaiah 13:10, Zephaniah 1:15, Ezekiel 34:12, Job 10:21–22, Nahum 1:8
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.44 cross-references: Isaiah 1:11–16, Leviticus 26:31, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 66:3, Jeremiah 6:20
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.19 cross-references: Micah 6:6–7, Amos 4:4–5, Isaiah 66:3, Leviticus 7:12–15, Psalms 116:17
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.8 cross-references: Amos 6:5, Amos 8:10, Amos 8:3
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.18 cross-references: Micah 6:8, Jeremiah 22:3, Hosea 6:6, Proverbs 21:3, Job 29:12–17
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?24 cross-references: Acts 7:42–43, Ezekiel 20:8, Nehemiah 9:18, Nehemiah 9:21, Joshua 24:14
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.7 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:12–13, 1 Kings 11:33, Leviticus 20:2–5, Leviticus 18:21
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.18 cross-references: 2 Kings 17:6, Acts 7:43, Amos 4:13, 2 Kings 15:29

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Idolatry in the wilderness Amos 5:25 and Acts 7:42
Amos recalls that Israel's wilderness worship was mixed with idolatry. Stephen quotes it to show Israel's long pattern of resisting God, culminating in their rejection of the Messiah.
The day of the Lord — not what you expect Amos 5:18 and 1 Thessalonians 5:2
Amos warns those who long for the day of the LORD: it will be darkness, not light. Paul says it will come like a thief in the night, so believers must stay awake.

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