Amos 5:13

In such a corrupt age the wise stay silent, because speaking justice brings persecution. It marks how thoroughly society had turned against truth.

Cross-references · 14

• Mic 2:3Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
• 2 Tim 3:1But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
• Hos 4:4“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
• Eph 5:15–16Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
• Eccl 3:7a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
• Matt 27:12–14When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
• Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
• Mic 7:5–7Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
• Eph 6:13Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
• Isa 36:21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
• Eccl 9:12For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
• Isa 37:3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
• Zeph 2:2–3before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
• Amos 6:10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

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