Holy Scripture

Amos 5:14

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“And so, where the good God is, there are the good things that David desired to see and believed that he would see, even as he says, "I believe I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.(Ps. 27:13)"' They indeed are the good things that endure always, that cannot be destroyed by change of time o…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c.

Source: Septuagint

Original

14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,

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In context

12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.

13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

— Amos 5:14 —

15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

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