Amos 5:7-15

⁷Those people turn justice into a bitter thing and throw righteousness down to the ground!”

⁸God made the Pleiades and Orion; he turns darkness into the morning; he makes the day dark with night and calls for the waters of the sea; he pours them out on the surface of the earth. Yahweh is his name!

⁹He brings sudden destruction on the strong so that destruction comes on the fortresses.

¹⁰They hate anyone who corrects them in the city gate, and they abhor anyone who speaks the truth.

¹¹Because you trample down the poor and take portions of wheat from him— although you have built houses of worked stone, you will not live in them. You have delightful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.

¹²For I know how many are your offenses and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, take bribes, and turn aside the needy in the city gate.

¹³Therefore any prudent person is silent at such a time, for it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. So Yahweh, the God of hosts, will really be with you, as you say he is.

¹⁵Hate evil, love good, establish justice in the city gate. Perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.