Amos 4

1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!” ‡ Psa 22:12Amo 6:1Amo 5:11Ezk 39:18Ecc 4:11Ki 16:24Amo 2:6-8Amo 3:9-10 +30

2 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, ‡ Jer 16:16Psa 89:35Hab 1:15-16Amo 6:8Isa 37:29Ezk 39:4-5

“Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks,

and the last of you with fish hooks.

3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, ‡ Ezk 12:5Ezk 12:12Isa 31:7Mat 16:262Ki 25:42Ki 7:152Ki 7:7-8Isa 2:20 +1

everyone straight before her;

and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says the LORD.

4 “Go to Bethel, and sin; ‡ Ezk 20:39Hos 4:15Num 28:3-4Amo 5:5Hos 12:11Hos 9:15Mat 23:32Amo 3:14 +8

to Gilgal, and sin more.

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

your tithes every three days,

5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, ‡ Lev 22:18-21Psa 81:12Hos 9:10Hos 9:1Lev 7:12-13Mat 15:13-14Mat 23:23Mat 6:2 +5

and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them;

for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.

6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, ‡ Hag 2:17Jer 5:3Isa 9:13Rev 16:10-11Hos 5:15Lev 26:26Rev 2:211Ki 17:1 +15

and lack of bread in every town;

yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

7 “I also have withheld the rain from you, ‡ Exo 9:26Jer 3:32Ch 7:13-14Exo 10:23Exo 9:4Isa 5:61Ki 8:35-36Deu 11:17 +17

when there were yet three months to the harvest;

and I caused it to rain on one city,

and caused it not to rain on another city.

One field was rained on,

and the field where it didn’t rain withered.

8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, ‡ Amo 4:61Ki 18:5Hag 1:6Amo 4:9-11Ezk 4:16-17Hos 7:10Isa 41:17-18Jer 14:3-4 +3

and were not satisfied;

yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, ‡ Deu 28:22Hag 2:17Jol 1:4Amo 4:6Amo 7:1-21Ki 8:372Ch 6:28Amo 4:8 +8

and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;

yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

10 “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. ‡ Deu 28:60Lev 26:252Ki 13:7Jol 2:20Deu 28:26-27Deu 7:15Exo 9:3-6Psa 78:49-50 +25

I have slain your young men with the sword,

and have carried away your horses.

I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,

yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

11 “I have overthrown some of you, ‡ Isa 13:19Zec 3:2Gen 19:24-25Jer 23:142Pe 2:6Amo 4:6Ezk 22:17-22Jud 1:23 +7

as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;

yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

12 “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; ‡ 1Th 5:2-4Jas 4:1-10Amo 9:1-4Mrk 13:32-37Ezk 13:5Amo 5:4-15Isa 47:3Luk 21:3-36 +8

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, Israel.

13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, ‡ Amo 5:8Mic 1:3Amo 9:6Isa 47:4Psa 65:6Dan 2:28Deu 33:29Isa 40:12 +24

who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth:

The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.”