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Amos 4
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness,
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon (note: That is, possibly Mount Hermon),” declares the LORD.
“Go to Bethel, and sin;
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days (note: Or years).
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth (note: That is, with empty stomachs) and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“I also have withheld the rain from you,
“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards,
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“I sent plagues amongst you like I did Egypt.
“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“I have overthrown some of you,
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand (note: That is, a burning stick) snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel;
“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought,
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”