Amos 5:7-15

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.

¹²For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, and they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

¹³Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.

¹⁴Seeke good and not euil, that ye may liue: and the Lord God of hostes shalbe with you, as you haue spoken.

¹⁵Hate the euil, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may bee that the Lord God of hostes will be mercifull vnto the remnant of Ioseph.