Amos (KJV) 4
4 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the
mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say
to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the
days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your
posterity with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that
which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after
three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and
proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of
Israel, saith the Lord God.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there
were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city,
and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the
piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink
water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your
gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased,
the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have
ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and
because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the
wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of
hosts, is his name.
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