--- title: "Amos 5:1-15 KJV - \"Hear ye this word which I take up agai...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no\" β€” Read Amos 5:1-15 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/amos/5/1-15" --- [ Read](/kjv/amos/5)[ Commentary](/study/amos/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/amos/5) Audio ## Amos 5:1-15 in Context (Verses 1–18 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/amos/5/1) Hear ye this word which I take up against you, *even* a lamentation, O house of Israel. [2 ](/kjv/amos/5/2) The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; *there is* none to raise her up. [3 ](/kjv/amos/5/3) For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out *by* a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth *by* an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. [4 ](/kjv/amos/5/4) ΒΆ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: [5 ](/kjv/amos/5/5) But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. [6 ](/kjv/amos/5/6) Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour *it*, and *there be* none to quench *it* in Beth-el. [7 ](/kjv/amos/5/7) Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, [8 ](/kjv/amos/5/8) *Seek him* that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD *is* his name: [9 ](/kjv/amos/5/9) That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.* [10 ](/kjv/amos/5/10) They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. [11 ](/kjv/amos/5/11) Forasmuch therefore as your treading *is* upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.* [12 ](/kjv/amos/5/12) For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate *from their right*.* [13 ](/kjv/amos/5/13) Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it *is* an evil time. [14 ](/kjv/amos/5/14) Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. [15 ](/kjv/amos/5/15) Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. [16 ](/kjv/amos/5/16) Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing *shall be* in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. [17 ](/kjv/amos/5/17) And in all vineyards *shall be* wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. [18 ](/kjv/amos/5/18) Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end *is* it for you? the day of the LORD *is* darkness, and not light. 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