14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.c
15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant 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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