Amos 5:16

"Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”"

Key Reflection

This verse calls for moral uprightness and justice, urging the people to reject evil and embrace goodness. By establishing just laws in their courts, they might earn God's favor and grace, as indicated by the promise of mercy to the remnants of Joseph.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord -For the third time in these three last verses Amos again reminds them, by whose authority he speaks, His who had revealed Himself as “I am,” the self-existent God, God by nature and of nature, the Creator and Ruler and Lord of all, visible or invisible, against their false gods, or fictitious substitutes for the true God.

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