Amos 5:7-15

⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground;

⁸Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, and darkeneth the day into night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is His name;

⁹That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

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

¹¹Therefore, because ye trample upon the poor, and take from him exactions of wheat; ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them, ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine thereof.

¹²For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate.

¹³Therefore the prudent doth keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

¹⁵Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.