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    "content": "Amos, Chapter 5 — 27 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "name": "Amos",
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      "order": 35,
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  "citation": "Amos 5 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,",
      "citation": "Amos 5:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?",
      "citation": "Amos 5:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?",
      "citation": "Amos 5:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.",
      "citation": "Amos 5:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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