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Amos 5:15

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5:15Hate what is wrong, love what is right!

Promote42 justice at the city gate!43

Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on44 those who are left from45 Joseph.46

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “set up, establish.” In the ancient Near East it was the responsibility especially of the king to establish justice. Here the prophet extends that demand to local leaders and to the nation as a whole (cf. 5:24).
  2. 43 Legal disputes were resolved in the city gate (see the note in v. 12). This repetition of this phrase serves to highlight a deliberate contrast to the injustices cited in vv. 11–13.
  3. 44 Or “will show favor to.”
  4. 45 Or “the remnant of” (, , , , ); “what’s left of your people.”
  5. 46 Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Hate evil, and love good,

and establish justice in the gate;

it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,

will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Hate evil, love good;

maintain justice in the courts.

Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy

on the remnant of Joseph.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Hate evil and love good;

establish justice at the city gate.

Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious

to the remnant of Joseph.

NLTNew Living Translation

Hate evil and love what is good;

turn your courts into true halls of justice.

Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies

will have mercy on the remnant of his people.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

KJV 1900King James Version

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:

It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.