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Amos 5:6

American Standard Version

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

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Amos 5:6 in other translations

Seek Yahweh, and you will live;
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Amos 5:6 · World English Bible

Amos 5:6 in context

  1. 4For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;
  2. 5but 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. 6Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
  4. 7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
  5. 8seek him that maketh the Pleiades 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 (Jehovah is his name);