Holy Scripture
Amos 5:15
A church father on this verse
“For when a man rules his own self—and that counts for more than to govern others—his heart is in the hand of God, and God turns it where he wills. No wonder if he turns it to the good, perfect goodness is his. And so let us be in the hand of God that we may seek the good, that incorruptible and immutable good of which…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,
— Amos 5:15 —
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.
17And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.