005:012 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts. 005:013 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. 005:014 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. 005:015 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph." 005:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing. 005:017 In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh. 005:018 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. 005:019 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. 005:020 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? 005:021 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies. 005:022 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. 005:023 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 005:024 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream. 005:025 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? 005:026 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. 005:027 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies. 006:001 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! 006:002 Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? 006:003 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 006:004 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 006:005 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;