But seek not Bethel, nor enter into [a]Gilgal, and go not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

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 Bethel.

They turn [b]judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:5 In those places they worshipped new idols, which aforetime served for the true honor of God: therefore he saith that these shall not save them.
  2. Amos 5:7 Instead of judgment and equity they execute cruelty and oppression.

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