| 4:1 | Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. | | 4:2 | 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. | | 4:3 | 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. | | 4:4 | Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years: | | 4:5 | And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] declare the free offerings: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. | | 4:6 | 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 to me, saith the LORD. | | 4:7 | And also I have withheld 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 on which it rained not withered. | | 4:8 | So two [or] three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. | | 4:9 | I have smitten you with blighting 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 to me, saith the LORD. | | 4:10 | 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 to your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. | | 4:11 | 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 to me, saith the LORD. | | 4:12 | Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. | | 4:13 | For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to 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. |
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Amos 4 - Revised Webster Version
