Amos 5

²“The virgin of Israel has fallen;

³For the Lord GOD says:

⁴For the LORD says to the house of Israel:

⁵but don’t seek Bethel,

⁶Seek the LORD, and you will live,

⁷You who turn justice to wormwood,

⁸Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,

⁹who brings sudden destruction on the strong,

¹⁰They hate him who reproves in the gate,

¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat,

¹²For I know how many are your offenses,

¹³Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil,

¹⁵Hate evil, love good,

¹⁶Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

¹⁷In all vineyards there will be wailing,

¹⁸“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD!

¹⁹As if a man fled from a lion,

²⁰Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?

²¹I hate, I despise your feasts,

²²Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,

²³Take away from me the noise of your songs!

²⁴But let justice roll on like rivers,

²⁵“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

²⁶You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

²⁷Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.