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13 Yet the people (A)do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they (B)seek Yahweh of hosts.

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13 As it is written in the [a](A)law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have (B)not [b]entreated the favor of Yahweh our God by (C)turning from our iniquity and acting wisely in Your truth.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:13 Or instruction, cf. 9:10-11
  2. Daniel 9:13 Lit softened the face of

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel,

(A)Seek Me (B)that you may live.
But do not seek (C)Bethel,
And do not come to (D)Gilgal,
Nor cross over to (E)Beersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into [a]exile,
And Bethel will become [b]evil.
(F)Seek Yahweh that you may live,
Lest He come mightily like a (G)fire, [c]O house of Joseph,
And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,
For those who overturn (H)justice into wormwood
And put righteousness down to the earth.”

He who made the (I)Pleiades and Orion
And (J)overturns the shadow of death into morning,
[d]Who also (K)darkens day into night,
Who (L)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
(M)Yahweh is His name.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:5 Gilgal sounds like Heb root galah, which means to go into exile
  2. Amos 5:5 Or Beth Aven, cf. Hos 4:15; 5:8; 10:5
  3. Amos 5:6 Or in the house
  4. Amos 5:8 Lit And He darkened