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Amos 5:6

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Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth–el.

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  1. Amos 5:4

    For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

  2. Amos 5:5

    But seek not Beth–el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer–sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth–el shall come to nought.

  3. Amos 5:7

    Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  4. Amos 5:8

    Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

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