Amos 4
1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, "Bring us some drinks!"
2
The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: "The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.
3
You will each go straight out through breaks in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon, [1] " declares the LORD.
4
"Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. [2]
5
Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings-- boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do," declares the Sovereign LORD.
6
"I gave you empty stomachs [3] in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
7
"I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
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People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
9
"Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, I struck them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
10
"I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
11
"I overthrew some of you as I [4] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
12
"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel."
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He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth-- the LORD God Almighty is his name.
  1. [3] Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, O mountain of oppression
  2. [4] Or tithes on the third day
  3. [6] Hebrew you cleanness of teeth
  4. [11] Hebrew God