Amos 5:7-17

⁷ You who turn justice to wormwood,
and cast down righteousness to the earth: ⁸ seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
and makes the day dark with night;
who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name, ⁹ who brings sudden destruction on the strong,
so that destruction comes on the fortress. ¹⁰ They hate him who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly. ¹¹ Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor,
and take taxes from him of wheat:
You have built houses of cut stone,
but you will not dwell in them.
You have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine. ¹² For I know how many your offenses,
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the just,
who take a bribe,
and who turn aside the needy in the courts. ¹³ Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time. ¹⁴ Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
as you say. ¹⁵ Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

¹⁶ Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord:

“Wailing will be in all the broad ways;
and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
and they will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing. ¹⁷ In all vineyards there will be wailing;
for I will pass through the midst of you,” says Yahweh.