Amos 5:4-8

Seek God and Live

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4} For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek Me and live!^(A)

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Do not seek Bethel^(B)
or go to Gilgal^(C)
or journey to Beer-sheba,^(D)
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.

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Seek Yahweh^(E) and live,
or He will spread like fire^(F)
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.^(G)

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Those who turn justice into wormwood^(H)
throw righteousness to the ground.

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The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(I)
who turns darkness^(a) into dawn^(J)
and darkens day into night,^(K)
who summons the waters of the sea^(L)
and pours them out over the face of the earth^(M)—
Yahweh is His name.^(N)

Footnotes:

a. Amos 5:8: Or turns the shadow of death

Cross references:

A. Amos 5:4: Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 32:46-47

B. Amos 5:5: 1 Kings 12:28-29

C. Amos 5:5: 1 Samuel 7:16; 1 Samuel 11:14

D. Amos 5:5: Genesis 21:31-33

E. Amos 5:6: Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 55:6-7

F. Amos 5:6: Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 32:22; Hebrews 12:29

G. Amos 5:6: Isaiah 33:14; Isaiah 66:24; Jeremiah 4:4

H. Amos 5:7: Amos 6:12

I. Amos 5:8: Job 9:9; Job 38:31

J. Amos 5:8: Genesis 1:2-3; Job 38:12

K. Amos 5:8: Amos 8:9

L. Amos 5:8: Psalm 104:6-9; Jeremiah 10:13

M. Amos 5:8: Job 36:27-30

N. Amos 5:8: Amos 4:13; Amos 9:5-6