AMOS 4
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord GOD 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 the LORD.
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 liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
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 the LORD.
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 the LORD.
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 palmerworm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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 stink of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown some 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 the LORD.
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; the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.
Cross-references
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- 1Psa 22:12, Amo 6:1, Ezk 39:18, Amo 5:11, Ecc 4:1, Psa 12:5, Mic 3:1–3, Amo 2:6–8
- 2Jer 16:16, Psa 89:35, Hab 1:15–16, Amo 6:8, Isa 37:29, Ezk 39:4–5
- 3Ezk 12:5, Ezk 12:12, Mat 16:26, Isa 31:7, 2Ki 25:4, Zep 1:18, 2Ki 7:15, Isa 2:20
- 4Ezk 20:39, Hos 4:15, Num 28:3–4, Hos 9:15, Amo 5:5, Hos 12:11, Mat 23:32, Jol 3:9–12
- 5Lev 22:18–21, Psa 81:12, Hos 9:10, Hos 9:1, Mat 23:23, Mat 6:2, Mat 15:13–14, Lev 7:12–13
- 6Hag 2:17, Jer 5:3, Isa 9:13, Rev 16:10–11, Hos 5:15–6:1, Rev 2:21, Lev 26:26, Jol 2:12–14
- 7Exo 9:26, Jer 3:3, Exo 10:23, Exo 9:4, 2Ch 7:13–14, Isa 5:6, Jol 2:23, Lev 26:18–21
- 8Amo 4:6, Hag 1:6, 1Ki 18:5, Hos 7:10, Isa 41:17–18, Jer 14:3–4, Jer 3:7, Amo 4:9–11
- 9Hag 2:17, Deu 28:22, Jol 1:4, Amo 4:6, Amo 7:1–2, Isa 42:24–25, Jol 1:7, 1Ki 8:37
- 10Deu 28:60, Lev 26:25, Jol 2:20, 2Ki 13:7, Psa 78:49–50, Deu 7:15, Deu 28:26–27, Exo 9:3–6
- 11Isa 13:19, Zec 3:2, Jer 23:14, Gen 19:24–25, Amo 4:6, 2Pe 2:6, Ezk 22:17–22, Jud 1:7
- 121Th 5:2–4, Jas 4:1–10, Amo 9:1–4, Mrk 13:32–37, Ezk 13:5, Luk 21:3–36, Amo 5:4–15, Isa 47:3
- 13Amo 5:8, Mic 1:3, Amo 9:6, Isa 47:4, Psa 65:6, Dan 2:28, Jer 13:16, Isa 40:12
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Bashan, Beth-El, Blasting, Blessing, Bread, Cattle, Cow, Darkness, Famine, Firebrand, Fish, Fishhook, Gilgal, God, Gomorrah, Idolatry, Irony, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Judgment, Kine (Bovine), Leaven (Yeast), Mildew, Offerings, Oppression, Palmer-Worm, Poor, Rain, Repentance, Rulers, Sodom, Temptation, Tithes, War