Amos 5
Geneva Bible 1599
1Heare ye this worde, which I lift vp vpon you, euen a lamentation of the house of Israel.
2The virgine Israel is fallen, and shall no more rise: shee is left vpon her lande, and there is none to raise her vp.
3For thus saith ye Lord God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundreth: and that which went forth by an hundreth, shall leaue ten to the house of Israel.
4For thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shall liue.
5But seeke not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and go not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall goe into captiuitie, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
6Seeke the Lord, and yee shall liue, least he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph and deuoure it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
7They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.
8He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.
9He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shall come against the fortresse.
10They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly.
11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.