Amos 5:7-15

⁷It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

⁸who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

⁹who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.

¹⁰They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

¹¹Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.

¹²For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.

¹³Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,

¹⁵We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.