Amos 5:1-6

“Seek Me So That You May Live”

1Hear this word which I am taking up for you as a song of mourning, house of Israel:

2She has fallen, she will not rise again—

The virgin Israel.

She lies unnoticed on her land;

There is no one to raise her up.

³For this is what the Lord God says:

“The city which goes forth a thousand strong

Will have a hundred left,

And the one which goes forth a hundred strong

Will have ten left to the house of Israel.”

⁴For this is what the Lord says to the house of Israel:

“Seek Me so that you may live.

5“But do not resort to Bethel

And do not come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity

And Bethel will come to nothing.

6“Seek the Lord so that you may live,

Or He will break through like a fire, house of Joseph,

And it will consume with no one to extinguish it for Bethel,