Amos 4
1
Hear you this word, you heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria,
that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give
us that we may drink.
2
The Lord swears by his Or, holy things holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons,
and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
3
And you shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you shall
be cast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord.
4
You went into Bethel, and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Galgala; and you brought
your meat-offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.
5
And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that
the children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord.
6
And I will give you q. d. idleness of teeth dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet
you
returned not to me, says the Lord.
7
Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain
upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon,
and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
8
And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink
water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the
Lord.
9
I smote you with parching, and with blight: you multiplied your gardens, your vineyards,
and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive-yards: yet not even thus
did you return to me, says the Lord.
10
I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the
sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in Lit. in the anger of you my anger against you I set fire
to your camps: yet not even thus did you return to
me, says the Lord.
11
I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you became as a brand plucked
out of the fire: yet not even thus did you return to me, says the Lord.
12
Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare
to call on your God, O Israel.
13
For, behold, I am he who strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims
to men his Christ, forming the morning and the Gr. vapour darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord
God Almighty is
his name.