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!”
2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “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, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
4 “Go to Bethel, and sin; 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, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
7 “I also have withheld the rain from you, 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, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
10 “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. 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 Yahweh.
11 “I have overthrown some of you, 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 Yahweh.
12 “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; 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, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, 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