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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/amos/4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, That are in the mountain of Samaria,</div><div class="po2">That oppress the poor, that crush the needy,</div><div class="po2">That say unto their lords: ‘Bring, that we may feast.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Lord GOD hath sworn by His holiness:</div><div class="po2">Lo, surely the days shall come upon you,</div><div class="po2">That ye shall be taken away with hooks,</div><div class="po2">And your residue with fish-hooks.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her;</div><div class="po2">And ye shall be cast into Harmon,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Come to Beth-el, and transgress,</div><div class="po2">To Gilgal, and multiply transgression; And bring your sacrifices in the morning,</div><div class="po2">And your tithes after three days;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,</div><div class="po2">And proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them;</div><div class="po2">For so ye love to do, O ye children of Israel,<p>Saith the Lord GOD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I also have given you</div><div class="po2">Cleanness of teeth in all your cities,</div><div class="po2">And want of bread in all your places;</div><div class="po2">Yet have ye not returned unto Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I also have withholden the rain from you,</div><div class="po2">When there were yet three months to the harvest;</div><div class="po2">And I caused it to rain upon one city,</div><div class="po2">And caused it not to rain upon another city;</div><div class="po2">One piece was rained upon,</div><div class="po2">And the piece whereupon it rained not withered.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So two or three cities wandered unto one city</div><div class="po2">To drink water, and were not satisfied;</div><div class="po2">Yet have ye not returned unto Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have smitten you with blasting and mildew;</div><div class="po2">The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards</div><div class="po2">And your fig-trees and your olive-trees</div><div class="po2">Hath the palmer-worm devoured;</div><div class="po2">Yet have ye not returned unto Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I have sent among you the pestilence in the way of Egypt;</div><div class="po2">Your young men have I slain with the sword,</div><div class="po2">And have carried away your horses;</div><div class="po2">And I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils;</div><div class="po2">Yet have ye not returned unto Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have overthrown some of you,</div><div class="po2">As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,</div><div class="po2">And ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning;</div><div class="po2">Yet have ye not returned unto Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel;</div><div class="po2">Because I will do this unto thee,</div><div class="po2">Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,</div><div class="po2">And declareth unto man what is his thought,</div><div class="po2">That maketh the morning darkness,</div><div class="po2">And treadeth upon the high places of the earth; The LORD, the God of hosts, is His name.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/amos/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>