Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Amos 5:6 in English Standard Version "Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel," Isa 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. Am 5:4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live; Am 5:5 but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.”