Amos 5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.

² 0 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

³ 1 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

⁴ 2 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

⁵ 3 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

⁶ 4 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.

⁷ 5 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

⁸ 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.

⁹ 7 And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ 8 Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

¹¹ 9 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

¹² 0 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

¹³ 1 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

¹⁴ 2 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

¹⁵ 3 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

¹⁶ 4 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

¹⁷ 5 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

¹⁸ 6 But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

¹⁹ 7 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

²⁰ Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel.

²¹ Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.

²² You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

²³ You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd;

²⁴ You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;

²⁵ That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

²⁶ Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

²⁷ The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.