Amos 5:14
Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quærite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis ; et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκζητήσατε τὸ καλὸν καὶ μὴ πονηρόν, ὅπως ζήσητε, καὶ ἔσται οὕτως μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ· ὃν τρόπον εἴπατε
- Hebrew (WLC)
- דִּרְשׁוּ ט֥וֹב וְאַל רָ֖ע לְמַ֣עַן תִּֽחְי֑וּ וִיהִי כֵ֞ן יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵֽי צְבָא֛וֹת אִתְּכֶ֖ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּֽם
Haydock's commentary
Said. Probably Amaias took occasion, from the flourishing state of the kingdom, to assert that the Lord approved of their conduct. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.