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Amos 5:13
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
Amos 5:13 · Berean Standard Bible
Amos 5:13 in other translations
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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In context
10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
14 Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
15 Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
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