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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Amos 4 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/amos/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Amos 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/3.htm" title="Amos 3">◄</a> Amos 4 <a href="../amos/5.htm" title="Amos 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/amos/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Israel Has Not Returned to God</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,</p><p class="line2">you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy</p><p class="line2">and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> has sworn by his holiness:</p><p class="line2">“The time will surely come</p><p class="line1">when you will be taken away with hooks,</p><p class="line2">the last of you with fishhooks. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or away in baskets, the last of you in fish baskets">a</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You will each go straight out</p><p class="line2">through breaches in the wall,</p><p class="line2">and you will be cast out toward Harmon, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression">b</a></sup></span> ”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Go to Bethel and sin;</p><p class="line2">go to Gilgal and sin yet more.</p><p class="line1">Bring your sacrifices every morning,</p><p class="line2">your tithes every three years. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or days">c</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Burn leavened bread as a thank offering</p><p class="line2">and brag about your freewill offerings—</p><p class="line1">boast about them, you Israelites,</p><p class="line2">for this is what you love to do,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“I gave you empty stomachs in every city</p><p class="line2">and lack of bread in every town,</p><p class="line2">yet you have not returned to me,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“I also withheld rain from you</p><p class="line2">when the harvest was still three months away.</p><p class="line1">I sent rain on one town,</p><p class="line2">but withheld it from another.</p><p class="line1">One field had rain;</p><p class="line2">another had none and dried up.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>People staggered from town to town for water</p><p class="line2">but did not get enough to drink,</p><p class="line2">yet you have not returned to me,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,</p><p class="line2">destroying them with blight and mildew.</p><p class="line1">Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,</p><p class="line2">yet you have not returned to me,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“I sent plagues among you</p><p class="line2">as I did to Egypt.</p><p class="line1">I killed your young men with the sword,</p><p class="line2">along with your captured horses.</p><p class="line1">I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,</p><p class="line2">yet you have not returned to me,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“I overthrew some of you</p><p class="line2">as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</p><p class="line1">You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,</p><p class="line2">yet you have not returned to me,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,</p><p class="line2">and because I will do this to you, Israel,</p><p class="line2">prepare to meet your God.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He who forms the mountains,</p><p class="line2">who creates the wind,</p><p class="line2">and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,</p><p class="line1">who turns dawn to darkness,</p><p class="line2">and treads on the heights of the earth—</p><p class="line2">the <span class="name">Lord</span> God Almighty is his name.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>away in baskets,<br />     the last of you in fish baskets</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) <i>out, you mountain of oppression</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>days</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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