Amos 5:11-20

11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

13Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent at such a time, for the days are evil.

14Pursue good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord, the God of Armies, will be with you as you have claimed.

15Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

16Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail.

17There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.

18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! What will the day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

19It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.

20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?