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Time after Pentecost · Proper 23 · Year B

Amos 5:6-7, 10-15

Seek Good and Establish Justice

October 10, 2027

Allegory of Justice, Bernardino Mei
Allegory of Justice, Bernardino Mei, 17th centuryPrivate collection, via Wikimedia Commons
A Sienese Baroque allegory: Justice with her scales and sword, painted with the hard theatrical lighting Mei favoured.Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos wants the thing itself, not the figure of it.Bernardino MeiA Sienese painter of the Baroque, who worked in Rome and specialised in allegories with a cold, theatrical light.Private collection, via Wikimedia CommonsIn private hands; the painting is known from the public domain reproduction rather than from a wall.Private collection, via Wikimedia Commons
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 10:17-22Mk 10:17-22
EpistleHeb. 3:12-19Heb 3:12-19
Old TestamentAmos 5:6-7, 10-15Am 5:6-7, 10-15
PsalterPs. 90:12-17Ps 90:12-17

Overview & Insights

"Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you." (Amos 5:14)

The prophet indicts Israel for trampling the poor and corrupting justice in the courts, calling the nation to seek the Lord and to establish justice in the gate so that they may live.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Amos 5:6-7, 10-15Working Preacher: Commentary on Am 5:6-7, 10-15 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on seeking good and establishing justice.

Enduring Word: Amos 5Enduring Word: Am 5 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Amos 5 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Am 5 Commentary Precept Austin

Study page gathering many commentators on the call to seek the LORD.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Amos 5:6BibleHub: Commentaries on Am 5:6 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to seeking the LORD and living.

StudyLight: Amos 5 CommentariesStudyLight: Am 5 Commentaries StudyLight

Many complete commentaries on Amos 5 gathered on one passage page.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: Amos OverviewBibleProject: Am Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the design and message of Amos.

Sefaria: Amos 5 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Am 5 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Amos 5 InterlinearBibleHub: Am 5 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Amos 5Catena: Am 5 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Amos 5.

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