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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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<t><p class="indent1">In Gilgal [where idols are worshiped] multiply transgression; <t><p class="indent1">Bring your sacrifices every morning, <t><p class="indent1">Your tithes every three days! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Offer [by burning] a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, <t><p class="indent1">And [boastfully] proclaim freewill offerings, announce them. <t><p class="indent1">For this you so love to do, O children of Israel!” <t><p class="indent1">Says the Lord GOD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities <t><p class="indent1">And lack of bread in all your places, <t><p class="indent1">Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you <t><p class="indent1">When <i>there were</i> still three months until the harvest. <t><p class="indent1">Then I would send rain on one city, <t><p class="indent1">And on another city I would not send rain; <t><p class="indent1">One piece of ground was rained on, <t><p class="indent1">While the part not rained on would dry up. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“So [the people of] two or three cities would stagger into one city to drink water, <t><p class="indent1">But would not be satisfied; <t><p class="indent1">Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“I wounded you with blight [from the hot, blasting east wind] and with mildew; <t><p class="indent1">And the caterpillar devoured <t><p class="indent1">Your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees; <t><p class="indent1">Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“I sent a plague among you like [those of] Egypt; <t><p class="indent1">I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses, <t><p class="indent1">I made the stench of your camp rise up into your nostrils; <t><p class="indent1">Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“I overthrew <i>and</i> destroyed [some among] you, as [I, your] God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, <t><p class="indent1">And you were [rescued] like a log pulled out of the flame; <t><p class="indent1">Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what I shall do to you, O Israel; <t><p class="indent1">Because I will do this to you, <t><p class="indent1">Prepare to meet your God [in judgment], O Israel!” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For behold, He who forms the mountains and creates the wind <t><p class="indent1">And declares to man what are His thoughts, <t><p class="indent1">He who makes the dawn into darkness <t><p class="indent1">And treads on the heights of the earth-- <t><p class="indent1">The LORD God of hosts is His name.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> An unknown place of exile.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> The sarcasm of vv 5, 6 underscores the disobedience and hypocrisy of the Israelites.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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 align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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