Amos 5:1–7 (ESV)

Seek the Lord and Live

5 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

2  “Fallen, no more to rise,

is the virgin Israel;

forsaken on her land,

with none to raise her up.”

3 For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that went out a thousand

shall have a hundred left,

and that which went out a hundred

shall have ten left

to the house of Israel.”

4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

“Seek me and live;

5  but do not seek Bethel,

and do not enter into Gilgal

or cross over to Beersheba;

for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,

and Bethel shall come to nothing.”

6  Seek the Lord and live,

lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,

and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

7  O you who turn justice to wormwood

and cast down righteousness to the earth!