Amos 5:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Seek good; turn to the law of God, study it, that ye may do the good it requireth in works of piety, justice, and charity. And not evil: you have devised evil, and done it in works of impiety, injustice, and cruelty. Or this may be the same with Amos 5:4-6, which see. That ye may live: see Amos 5:4. The Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you; the eternal glorious God, who is Lord of all, and can help you, having all the hosts of heaven and earth at his disposal; he will be with you to bless and save you yet, notwithstanding all your former sins. As ye have spoken; you have boasted his being with you, you think he is bound to be with you and own you; so he will indeed, but it is if you repent, cease from idols and violence.

Amos 5:14

14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.