Amos raises a funeral lament over Israel as though the nation were already fallen, yet in the midst of it sounds a gracious call: “Seek me and live,” “Seek good, and not evil, that you may live.” He denounces those who “turn justice to wormwood” and utters God’s stinging rejection of hollow worship: “I hate, I despise your feasts... But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” The day of the LORD, they will find, is “darkness, and not light.”
Amos study chapter
Amos 5
c. 760 BCA lament over Israel, a plea to “seek me and live,” and the demand that justice roll down like waters.
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