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‘Seek the Lord and live!
    Otherwise, he may break out like a fire in the house of Joseph
        and devour Bethel,[a]
    and there will be no one to extinguish it.
Those of you who are making justice taste bitter,[b]
    and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:
Seek[c] the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion,
    who turns the deep darkness[d] into morning,
    who darkens day into night,
    who calls out to the waters of the sea,
        pouring them out onto the surface of the earth—
    the Lord is his name.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:6 So MT; LXX reads devour the House of Israel
  2. Amos 5:7 Lit. are turning justice into wormwood
  3. Amos 5:8 The Heb. lacks Seek
  4. Amos 5:8 Or the shadow of death