Amos · Brenton's English Septuagint
Amos 5 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Amos is not in PT1904.
1 Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
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2 The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
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3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left a hundred, and [in that] out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.
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4 Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
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5 But seek not Bæthel, and go not in to Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bæthel shall be as that which is not.
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6 Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
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7 [It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
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8 who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
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9 who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
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10 They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
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11 Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.
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12 For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
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13 Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
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14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,
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15 We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
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16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
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17 And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
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18 Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
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19 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
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20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness?
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21 I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
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22 Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.
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23 Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
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24 But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
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25 Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
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26 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.
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27 And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.
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Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 19:1; Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 9:10; Amos 3:1
- 2 Jeremiah 14:17; Hosea 14:1; Isaiah 14:21; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 15:29
- 3 Romans 9:27; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 6:13; Ezekiel 12:16; Isaiah 1:9
- 4 Zephaniah 2:3; 2 Chronicles 15:2; Jeremiah 29:12–13; Isaiah 55:3; Psalm 14:2
- 5 Hosea 4:15; Amos 4:4; Amos 8:14; Genesis 21:33; Amos 7:17
- 6 Isaiah 55:6; Ezekiel 20:47–48; Ezekiel 33:11; Zechariah 10:6; Amos 5:14
- 7 Amos 6:12; Zephaniah 1:6; Ezekiel 3:20; Hosea 10:4; Deuteronomy 29:18
- 8 Amos 4:13; Job 9:9; Amos 9:6; Amos 8:9; Psalm 104:20
- 9 Jeremiah 37:10; 2 Kings 13:17; Micah 5:11; 2 Kings 13:25; Hebrews 11:34
- 10 1 Kings 22:8; Isaiah 29:21; John 8:45–47; Jeremiah 17:16–17; Proverbs 9:7–8
- 11 Micah 6:15; Zephaniah 1:13; Deuteronomy 28:30; James 2:6; Haggai 1:6
- 12 Amos 2:6–7; Amos 5:10; Isaiah 1:23; 1 Samuel 8:3; Psalm 26:9–10
- 13 2 Timothy 3:1; Hosea 4:4; Ephesians 5:15–16; Micah 2:3; Ecclesiastes 3:7
- 14 Joshua 1:9; Matthew 6:33; Philippians 4:8–9; Micah 6:8; Micah 3:11
- 15 Romans 12:9; 3 John 11; Joel 2:14; Psalm 97:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22
- 16 Joel 1:11; Jeremiah 9:17–20; Jeremiah 9:10; Revelation 18:15–16; Micah 1:8
- 17 Exodus 12:12; Jeremiah 48:33; Isaiah 16:10; Isaiah 32:10–12; Joel 3:17
- 18 Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1–2; Joel 2:31; Jeremiah 30:7; Malachi 4:1
- 19 Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 15:2–3; Jeremiah 48:43–44; Job 20:24–25; Acts 28:4
- 20 Isaiah 13:10; Zephaniah 1:15; Ezekiel 34:12; Job 10:21–22; Jude 13
- 21 Isaiah 1:11–16; Proverbs 28:9; Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 6:20
- 22 Micah 6:6–7; Amos 4:4–5; Isaiah 66:3; Leviticus 7:12–15; Psalm 50:23
- 23 Amos 6:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 8:3
- 24 Micah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:3; Proverbs 21:3; Hosea 6:6; Mark 12:32–34
- 25 Acts 7:42–43; Ezekiel 20:8; Nehemiah 9:18; Joshua 24:14; Leviticus 17:7
- 26 Leviticus 20:2–5; 2 Kings 23:12–13; 1 Kings 11:33; Leviticus 18:21
- 27 2 Kings 17:6; Acts 7:43; Amos 4:13; 2 Kings 15:29
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
But God turned, and gave them up to worship the hosts of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets: O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to Me sacrifices and oblations for forty years in the wilderness?
I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul, and my soul liveth by Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
I am moreover restrained by the Prophet's saying, "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time," a time when some trip up their neighbours' heels, some stamp on a man when he is down, and others clap their hands with joy, but there is not one to feel for the fallen and hold …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
The day of the Lord is darkness and not light." A day of darkness for those who are worthy of darkness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)