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Amos 5:4a

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5:4The Lord says this to the family9 of Israel:

“Seek me10 so you can live!

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Footnotes

  1. 9 Heb “house.”
  2. 10 The following verses explain what it meant to seek the Lord. Israel was to abandon the mere formalism and distorted view of God and reality that characterized religious activity at the worship sites, as well as the social injustice that permeated Israelite society. Instead the people were to repent and promote justice in the land. This call to seek the Lord echoes the challenge in 4:13 to prepare to meet him as he truly is.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

“Seek me and live;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This is what the Lord says to Israel:

“Seek me and live;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek me and live!

NLTNew Living Translation

Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel:

“Come back to me and live!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, “Seek me so that you may live.”

KJV 1900King James Version

For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel,

Seek ye me, and ye shall live: