Amos 4
- Hear this word, ye kine
of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which
oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and
let us drink.
- The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall
come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with
fishhooks.
- And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is
before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith
the LORD.
- Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices
every morning, and your tithes after three years:
- And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and
publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye
children of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
- And 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 the LORD.
- And also I 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.
- So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but
they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
the LORD.
- I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and
your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the
palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
the LORD.
- I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your
young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken
away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD.
- I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah,
and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned
unto me, saith the LORD.
- Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
- For, 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, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.