Amos 5:7-15

⁷Ye who change justice into wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

⁸But he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name;

⁹That causeth wasting to prevail against the strong, so that wasting shall come against the fortress.

¹⁰They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and him that speaketh uprightly they abhor.

¹¹Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.

¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest the cause of the needy in the gate.

¹³Therefore will the intelligent keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek for the good, and not the evil, in order that ye may live: and so will the Lord, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye have said.

¹⁵Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice firmly in the gate: perhaps the Lord the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.