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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/amos/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,</span><br /><span class="indent">who are on the mountain of Samaria,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,</span><br /><span class="indent">who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> has sworn by his holiness</span><br /><span class="indent">that, behold, the days are coming upon you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when they shall take you away with hooks,</span><br /><span class="indent">even the last of you with fishhooks.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And you shall go out through the breaches,</span><br /><span class="indent">each one straight ahead;</span><br /><span class="indent">and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Come to Bethel, and transgress;</span><br /><span class="indent">to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">bring your sacrifices every morning,</span><br /><span class="indent">your tithes every three days;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,</span><br /><span class="indent">and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;</span><br /><span class="indent">for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</span></p> <p class="heading">Israel Has Not Returned to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,</span><br /><span class="indent">and lack of bread in all your places,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you did not return to me,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I also withheld the rain from you</span><br /><span class="indent">when there were yet three months to the harvest;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I would send rain on one city,</span><br /><span class="indent">and send no rain on another city;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">one field would have rain,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the field on which it did not rain would wither;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so two or three cities would wander to another city</span><br /><span class="indent">to drink water, and would not be satisfied;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you did not return to me,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I struck you with blight and mildew;</span><br /><span class="indent">your many gardens and your vineyards,</span><br /><span class="indent">your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you did not return to me,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;</span><br /><span class="indent">I killed your young men with the sword,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and carried away your horses,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you did not return to me,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I overthrew some of you,</span><br /><span class="indent">as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you were as a brand<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, a burning stick">b</a></sup></span> plucked out of the burning;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you did not return to me,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;</span><br /><span class="indent">because I will do this to you,</span><br /><span class="indent">prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,</span><br /><span class="indent">and declares to man what is his thought,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who makes the morning darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and treads on the heights of the earth—</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of hosts, is his name!</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> 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