14Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.c
15Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.d
Amos 5 is a funeral dirge for Israel, a summons to seek God rather than religious performance, and a courtroom indictment of the nation's hollow worship and systemic injustice. The chapter pivots on a devastating lament: the virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again. Yet with
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