阿摩司書5:1-9

5:1 以色列家啊，要聽我為你們所作的哀歌：

5:2 以色列民（原文是處女）跌倒，不得再起；躺在地上，無人攙扶。

5:3 主耶和華如此說：以色列家的城發出一千兵的，只剩一百；發出一百的，只剩十個。

5:4 耶和華向以色列家如此說：你們要尋求我，就必存活。

5:5 不要往伯特利尋求，不要進入吉甲，不要過到別是巴；因為吉甲必被擄掠，伯特利也必歸於無有。

5:6 要尋求耶和華，就必存活，免得他在約瑟家像火發出，在伯特利焚燒，無人撲滅。

5:7 你們這使公平變為茵蔯、將公義丟棄於地的，

5:8 要尋求那造昴星和參星，使死蔭變為晨光，使白日變為黑夜，命海水來澆在地上的─耶和華是他的名；

5:9 他使力強的忽遭滅亡，以致保障遭遇毀壞。

Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

  “Fallen, no more to rise,

is the virgin Israel;

forsaken on her land,

with none to raise her up.”

  For thus says the Lord God:      

“The city that went out a thousand

shall have a hundred left,

and that which went out a hundred

shall have ten left

to the house of Israel.”

  For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:      

“Seek me and live;

  but do not seek Bethel,

and do not enter into Gilgal

or cross over to Beersheba;

for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,

and Bethel shall come to nothing.”

  Seek the Lord and live,

lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,

and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

  O you who turn justice to wormwood

and cast down righteousness to the earth!

  He who made the Pleiades and Orion,

and turns deep darkness into the morning

and darkens the day into night,

who calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out on the surface of the earth,

the Lord is his name;

  who makes destruction flash forth against the strong,

so that destruction comes upon the fortress.

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    上帝是看重公平與公義的上帝，所以祂希望祂的子民能夠尋求祂，靠祂的大能恩典來實踐公平與公義，才不至於落入祂的憤怒之中，遭受極大的災難與管教，以致充滿令人難過的事情。

    這也再次警惕我們自稱為基督徒的人，也要按照上帝的公平與公義來生活，這樣才能蒙上帝喜悅，並且真正見證上帝的榮美，而這樣的生命是蒙上帝重生的人才能活出來的生命，是順服與謙卑的人才能活出這樣的生命。

    也因此，基督徒要靠聖靈活出重生的生命，來見證主耶穌的拯救與榮耀上帝。