Amos 5:7-15

⁷You twist justice and make it bitter, you throw integrity to the ground.

⁸The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the darkness into morning, and daytime into night, who calls for the water of the seas, and pours it down as rain upon the earth—the Lord is his name!

⁹In a flash he cuts down the strong and destroys the fortresses.

¹⁰You hate anyone who confronts injustice and loathe anyone who speaks honestly.

¹¹Because you trample down the poor and impose a tax on their grain, building for yourselves impressive houses, you will not live in them, and you will not drink wine from the fine vineyards you have planted.

¹²For I know the extent of your wrongdoing and your numerous sins. You oppress good people by taking bribes, and you prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts.

¹³So smart people keep quiet in such evil times.

¹⁴Do what is right, and not evil, so you may live. Then the Lord God of power will be with you, as you claim he is.

¹⁵Hate evil and love good—and make sure justice wins out in your courts. Maybe the Lord God of power will have mercy on those who are left of Jacob's people.