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Amos 5:4
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
Amos 5:4 · Berean Standard Bible
Amos 5:4 in other translations
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
For the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;
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In context
1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
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