Amos 4:1-13
4 “Hear this word, you cows of Baʹshan,Who are on the mountain of Sa·marʹi·a,+You women who are defrauding the lowly+ and crushing the poor,Who say to their husbands,* ‘Bring us something to drink!’
2 The Sovereign Lord Jehovah has sworn by his holiness,‘“Look! The days are coming upon you when he will lift you up with butcher hooksAnd the rest of you with fishhooks.
3 You will go out through the breaches in the wall, each one straight ahead;And you will be cast out to Harʹmon,” declares Jehovah.’
4 ‘Come to Bethʹel and commit transgression,*+To Gilʹgal and transgress even more!+
Bring your sacrifices+ in the morning,And your tithes*+ on the third day.
5 Burn a thanksgiving sacrifice of leavened bread;+Loudly proclaim your voluntary offerings!
For that is what you love to do, O people of Israel,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.
6 ‘And for my part, I made your teeth clean of food* in all your citiesAnd caused a lack of bread in all your houses;+But you did not come back to me,’+ declares Jehovah.
7 ‘I also withheld rain from you three months before the harvest;+I made it rain on one city but not on another city.
One plot of land would have rain,But another plot of land where there was no rain would dry up.
8 People of two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,+And they would not get satisfied;But you did not come back to me,’+ declares Jehovah.
9 ‘I struck you with scorching heat and mildew.+
You multiplied your gardens and vineyards,But the locust would devour your fig trees and olive trees;+And you still did not come back to me,’+ declares Jehovah.
10 ‘I sent among you a pestilence like that of Egypt.+
With the sword I killed your young men+ and captured your horses.+
I made the stench of your camps rise up into your nostrils;+But you did not come back to me,’ declares Jehovah.
11 ‘I caused an overthrow among youLike God’s overthrow of Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah.+
And you were like a log snatched out of the fire;But you did not come back to me,’+ declares Jehovah.
12 So that is what I will do to you, O Israel.
Because this is what I will do to you,Get ready to meet your God, O Israel.
13 For look! he is the One who formed the mountains+ and created the wind;+He tells man what His thoughts are,He turns the dawn into darkness,+And he treads on earth’s high places;+Jehovah the God of armies is his name.”
