English Bible Presentation Sharing - Amos Book, chapter 5, verse 20 in Lxxen Version

Amos 5 : 1 (LXXEN)

Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.

Amos 5 : 2 (LXXEN)

The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.

Amos 5 : 3 (LXXEN)

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, in it there shall be left a hundred, and in that out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.

Amos 5 : 4 (LXXEN)

Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

Amos 5 : 5 (LXXEN)

But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.

Amos 5 : 6 (LXXEN)

Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.

Amos 5 : 7 (LXXEN)

It is he that executes judgement in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

Amos 5 : 8 (LXXEN)

who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

Amos 5 : 9 (LXXEN)

who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.

Amos 5 : 10 (LXXEN)

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

Amos 5 : 11 (LXXEN)

Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.

Amos 5 : 12 (LXXEN)

For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgement of the poor in the gates.

Amos 5 : 13 (LXXEN)

Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time *Or, of wicked men of evils.

Amos 5 : 14 (LXXEN)

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,

Amos 5 : 15 (LXXEN)

We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgement in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5 : 16 (LXXEN)

Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

Amos 5 : 17 (LXXEN)

And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

Amos 5 : 18 (LXXEN)

Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! *Lit. wherefore is this day, etc. what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

Amos 5 : 19 (LXXEN)

As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

Amos 5 : 20 (LXXEN)

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom *Gr. not having light without brightness?

Amos 5 : 21 (LXXEN)

I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.

Amos 5 : 22 (LXXEN)

Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your *See Heb grand peace-offerings.

Amos 5 : 23 (LXXEN)

Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.

Amos 5 : 24 (LXXEN)

But let judgement *Gr. fut roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

Amos 5 : 25 (LXXEN)

*Ac 7:42, 43 Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?

Amos 5 : 26 (LXXEN)

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

Amos 5 : 27 (LXXEN)

And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.