Amos 5:13

A Lament And Call To Repentance

¹² For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate! ¹³ Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil. ¹⁴ Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Keep Silent

Prudent Man

Amos

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak;

Hosea 4:4

Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, [is my] contention.

Micah 2:3

Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it [is] a time of disaster.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

Isaiah 36:21

But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."

Isaiah 37:3

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day [is] a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to [the] cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.

Amos 6:10

And [if] one's relative, who burns [the body], lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "[Are there] any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because [we] must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

Micah 7:5-7

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which [is] beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.

Zephaniah 2:2-3

Before the birth of the decree, the day flies away like chaff; before the fierce anger of Yahweh overtakes you; before the day of the anger of Yahweh overtakes you.

Matthew 27:12-14

And {when he was being accused} by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing.

Ephesians 5:15-16

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

Ephesians 6:13

Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

2 Timothy 3:1

But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,