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Amos|4:1|-|Hear this word,O heifers of Bashan, which are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who oppress the poorAnd crush the needy,
Who say to their lords,Bring, and let us drink.
Amos|4:2|-|The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holinessIndeed days are coming upon you
When one will take you away with hooks,And your posterity, with fish hooks.
Amos|4:3|-|And you will go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead of her;And you will cast yourselves into Harmon, declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:4|-|Come to |a|Bethel, and transgress;To |b|Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
And bring your |c|sacrifices every morningAnd your |d|tithes every three days,
Amos|4:5|-|And offer in smoke a thank offering out of what is |a|leavened;And proclaim freewill offerings; make them known;
For you love them, O children of Israel,Declares the Lord Jehovah.
Amos|4:6|-|And I also have given youCleanness of teeth in all your cities
And want of bread in all your places.Yet you have |a|not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:7|-|And I have also withheld the rain from youWhen there was yet three months until the harvest;
And I made it rain on one city,But on another city I did not make it rain;
One portion was rained on,And the portion that was not rained on dried up.
Amos|4:8|-|And two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water,But they were not satisfied.
Yet you have not returned to Me,Declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:9|-|I have stricken you with blight and mildew;The multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards,
And your fig trees and your olive trees, the cutting |a|locust has devoured.Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:10|-|I have sent among you |a|pestilence after the manner of Egypt;I have slain your choice young men with the sword, taking your horses
captive;And I have caused the stench of your camp to go up even into your own
nostrils.Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:11|-|I have overturned cities among you,As when God overturned |a|Sodom and Gomorrah;
And you were like a brand plucked out of the |b|burning.Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos|4:12|-|Therefore this is what I will do to you, O Israel;And because I will do this to you,
|1a|Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
Amos|4:13|-|For it is He who forms the mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what His thought is;
He who makes the morning |a|darknessAnd treads upon the |b|high places of the earth—
Jehovah the God of hosts is His name!
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