Amos 4
1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress
the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.
2
The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when
they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.
3
And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other, and you shall be
cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.
4
Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring
in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days.
5
And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim
it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6
Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread
in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.
7
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 I rained not, withered.
8
And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were not filled: yet
you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
9
I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your
many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned
not to me, saith the Lord.
10
I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men with the sword, even
to the captivity of your horses: and I made the stench of your camp to come up into
your nostrils: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
11
I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand
plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
12
Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I shall have done these
things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel.
13
For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his
word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of
the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.