Amos 4
4 1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria,
that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords,
Bring, and let us drink.
2The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness,
that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with
hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.
3And ye shall go out at the
breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves
into Harmon, saith Jehovah.
4Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal,
and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning,
and your tithes every three days;
5and offer a sacrifice of
thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and
publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith Jehovah.
7And 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.
8So two or three cities
wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye
not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
9I have smitten you with blasting
and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your
fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
10I 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 ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah.
11I have overthrown cities among you, as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the
burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
12Therefore
thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto
thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13For, lo, he that formeth the
mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought;
that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
Earth-jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
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