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title: "Amos 5 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# Amos 5

Amos 5 is chapter 5 of 9 in the Book of Amos. Here are all 27 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> A lamentation for Israel: an exhortation to return to God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Amos 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.
2. The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.
3. For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel.
4. For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live.
5. But do not be willing to seek Bethel, and do not be willing to enter Gilgal, and you will not cross into Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will be led into captivity, and Bethel will be useless.
6. Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.
7. You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.
8. The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9. It is he who smiles destruction on the healthy, and who brings pillaging upon the powerful.
10. They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.
11. Therefore, on his behalf, because you have torn apart the poor and stolen choice prey from him: you will build houses with square stones and you will not dwell in them; you will plant the most delightful vineyards, and you will not drink wine from them.
12. For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.
13. Therefore, the prudent will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
14. Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. And the Lord God of hosts will be with you, just as you have asked.
15. Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16. Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Sovereign: In all the streets, there will be wailing. And in every place where they are outdoors, they will say, “Woe, woe!” And they will call the farmer to mourn, and those who know mourning to lamentation.
17. And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord.
18. Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.
19. It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.
20. Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
21. I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
22. For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.
23. Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
24. And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
25. Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?
26. And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch and the image of your idols: the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27. And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.

## Amos 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos planctum: domus Israël cecidit, et non adjiciet ut resurgat.
2. Virgo Israël projecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
3. Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Urbs de qua egrediebantur mille, relinquentur in ea centum; et de qua egrediebantur centum, relinquentur in ea decem in domo Israël.
4. Quia hæc dicit Dominus domui Israël: Quærite me, et vivetis.
5. Et nolite quærere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis, quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
6. Quærite Dominum, et vivite (ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Joseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel:
7. qui convertitis in absinthium judicium, et justitiam in terra relinquitis):
8. facientem Arcturum et Orionem, et convertentem in mane tenebras, et diem in noctem mutantem; qui vocat aquas maris, et effundit eas super faciem terræ; Dominus nomen est ejus:
9. qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
10. Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta, et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
11. Idcirco, pro eo quod diripiebatis pauperem, et prædam electam tollebatis ab eo, domos quadro lapide ædificabitis, et non habitabitis in eis; vineas plantabis amantissimas, et non bibetis vinum earum.
12. Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes justi, accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta.
13. Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
14. Quærite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis; et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
15. Odite malum et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta judicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Joseph.
16. Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, dominator: In omnibus plateis planctus; et in cunctis quæ foris sunt, dicetur: Væ, væ! et vocabunt agricolam ad luctum, et ad planctum eos qui sciunt plangere.
17. Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus, quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.
18. Væ desiderantibus diem Domini! ad quid eam vobis? Dies Domini ista, tenebræ, et non lux.
19. Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus; et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
20. Numquid non tenebræ dies Domini, et non lux; et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
21. Odi, et projeci festivitates vestras, et non capiam odorem cœtuum vestrorum.
22. Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam; et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
23. Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum; et cantica lyræ tuæ non audiam.
24. Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium, et justitia quasi torrens fortis.
25. Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israël?
26. et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quæ fecistis vobis.
27. Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus: Deus exercituum nomen ejus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2100: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1435: The Many Forms of Penance in Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 5: Bethel, Galgal, Bersabee: the places where they worshipped their idols.
- Verse 8: “Arcturus and Orion” … Arcturus is a bright star in the north: Orion a beautiful constellation in the south.
- Verse 9: That is, with all ease, and without making any effort.
- Verse 25: Except the sacrifices that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the desert.
- Verse 26: “A tabernacle” … All this alludes to the idolatry which they committed, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the worship of their gods. Num. 25.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Feb 12, 2027: Friday after Ash Wednesday — Verse before the Gospel, See Amos 5:14
- Mon, Mar 8, 2027: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, Amos 5:14
- Fri, Mar 3, 2028 (computed): Friday after Ash Wednesday — Verse before the Gospel, Amos 5:14
- Mon, Mar 27, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, Amos 5:14

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).