Amos 5:5-15

5But don’t search ⌞for me⌟ at Bethel. Don’t go to Gilgal. Don’t travel to Beersheba. Gilgal will certainly go into exile. Bethel will come to nothing.

6Search for the Lord and live! If you don’t, he will spread like a fire through the house of Joseph and burn it down. Bethel will have no one to put it out.

7You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground.

8God made the ⌞constellations⌟ Pleiades and Orion. He turns deep darkness into dawn. He turns day into night. He calls for water from the sea to pour it over the face of the earth. His name is the Lord.

9He destroys strongholds and ruins fortresses.

10Israel, you hate anyone who speaks out against injustice. You are disgusted by anyone who speaks the truth.

11You trample on the poor and take their wheat from them for taxes. That is why you build houses from hand-cut stones, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.

12I know that your crimes are numerous and your sins are many. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes. You deny the needy access to the courts.

13That is why a wise person remains silent at such times, because those times are so evil.

14Search for good instead of evil so that you may live. Then the Lord God of Armies will be with you, as you have said.

15Hate evil and love good. Then you will be able to have justice in your courts. Maybe the Lord God of Armies will have pity on the faithful few of Joseph.