Amos 4
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Hear this word, you kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress
the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
2
The Lord YHWH has sworn by his holiness, that, behold, the days shall come upon you,
that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.
3
And you shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and you shall
cast [yourselves] into Harmon, says YHWH.
4
Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and bring
your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days;
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and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings
and publish them: for this pleases you, O you children of Israel, says the Lord YHWH.
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread
in all your places; yet have you not returned to me, says YHWH.
7
And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to
the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon
another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8
So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied:
yet have you not returned to me, says YHWH.
9
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your
vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees has the palmer-worm devoured: yet
have you not returned to me, says YHWH.
10
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have
I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench
of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have you not returned to me,
says YHWH.
11
I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and
you were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me, says
YHWH.
12
Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; [and] because I will do this to you, prepare
to meet your God, O Israel.
13
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man
what is his thought; that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places
of the Earth-jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.