Amos 5:14

Sin Justice God's presence Hope

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
KJV: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
WEB: Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
ASV: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
DARBY: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.
BLB: Seek good and not evil, so that you⁺ may live; and it will come to pass that YHWH, God of Hosts, [is] with you⁺, as you⁺ have spoken.

ÅB: Søk det gode og ikke det onde, så dere får leve. Da skal Herren, hærskarenes Gud, være med dere, slik som dere har sagt.
OTB: Søk det gode og ikke det onde, så dere kan leve;
og så vil Herren Gud Allmektig være med dere,
slik som dere sier.
B1930: Søk det gode og ikke det onde, så I får leve. Da skal Herren, hærskarenes Gud, være med eder, således som I har sagt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Joshua 1:9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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Philippians 4:8–9
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
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Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
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2 Timothy 4:22
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
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Genesis 39:2–3
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
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Psalms 34:12–16
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
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