Amos 5:10-14 - Heartlight

¹⁰There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate

and despise him who speaks with integrity.

¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor

and exact from him a tax of grain,

you will never live

in the stone houses you have built;

you will never drink the wine

from the lush vineyards you have planted.

¹²For I know that your transgressions are many

and your sins are numerous.

You oppress the righteous by taking bribes;

you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

¹³Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times,

for the days are evil.

¹⁴Seek good, not evil,

so that you may live.

And the LORD, the God of Hosts,

will be with you, as you have claimed.

— Amos 5:10-14

(BSB)

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