Amos 4
1 Hear 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.
2 The 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.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye
shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, saith Jehovah.
4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and
bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days;
5 and 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.
6 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 Jehovah.
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 unto one city to drink water, and were not
satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
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 hath the palmer-worm
devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
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 ye not
returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
11 I 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.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because I will do this
unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 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--Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.