Thematic Bible
Amos 5:1 (show verse)
Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:
Amos 5:2 (show verse)
Virgin Israel
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:3 (show verse)
For the Lord God says:
The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left in the house of Israel.
will have only a hundred left,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:4 (show verse)
For the Lord says to the house of Israel:
Seek Me and live!
Amos 5:5 (show verse)
or go to Gilgal
or journey to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
Amos 5:6 (show verse)
or He will spread like fire
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Amos 5:7 (show verse)
throw righteousness to the ground.
Amos 5:8 (show verse)
who turns darkness
and darkens day into night,
who summons the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the earth
Yahweh is His name.
Astronomy » Moon » Pleiades,
Astronomy » Moon » Orion
Constellations » Orion
Days » Under the control of God
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
Orion » The constellation of
Seven » Miscellany of sevens » Seven stars
Stars » Created by God
Stars » Orion
Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Pleiades,
Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Orion
Astronomy » Moon » Orion
Constellations » Orion
Days » Under the control of God
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
Orion » The constellation of
Seven » Miscellany of sevens » Seven stars
Stars » Created by God
Stars » Orion
Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Pleiades,
Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Orion
Amos 5:9 (show verse)
and it falls on the stronghold.
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 5:10 (show verse)
at the city gate
and despise
Amos 5:11 (show verse)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.
Amos 5:12 (show verse)
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,
and deprive the poor of justice
Bribery » Condemned
Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
Exposure » Of sin » Rendered doubly certain by God's infinite knowledge
Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
Secret sins » Known to God
Sin » Internal » Known to God
Sin » Described as » Often manifold
Sin » Described as » Often mighty
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
Exposure » Of sin » Rendered doubly certain by God's infinite knowledge
Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
Secret sins » Known to God
Sin » Internal » Known to God
Sin » Described as » Often manifold
Sin » Described as » Often mighty
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Amos 5:13 (show verse)
at such a time,
for the days are evil.
Amos 5:14 (show verse)
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you,
as you have claimed.
Amos 5:15 (show verse)
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious
to the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:16 (show verse)
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:
There will be wailing in all the public squares;
they will cry out in anguish in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners to wail.
they will cry out in anguish
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners
Amos 5:17 (show verse)
for I will pass among you.
The Lord has spoken.
Amos 5:18 (show verse)
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.
Amos 5:19 (show verse)
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
Amos 5:20 (show verse)
be darkness rather than light,
even gloom without any brightness in it?
Amos 5:21 (show verse)
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 (show verse)
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
I will have no regard
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.
Amos 5:23 (show verse)
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Amos 5:24 (show verse)
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
Amos 5:25 (show verse)
“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?
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Amos 5:26 (show verse)
But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
Chiun » Also called remphan, a God of the phoenicians
Idolatry » Punishment of » Banishment
Idolatry » Objects of, carried in procession
Idolatry » Idols, &c mentioned in scripture » Chiun
Stars » Worshiped
Stars » False gods frequently worshipped under the representation of
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
Idolatry » Punishment of » Banishment
Idolatry » Objects of, carried in procession
Idolatry » Idols, &c mentioned in scripture » Chiun
Stars » Worshiped
Stars » False gods frequently worshipped under the representation of
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
Amos 5:27 (show verse)
So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name. He has spoken.