Amos 4

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1. Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and cruch the needy and say to your

   husbands, "Bring us some drinks!"

2. The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: "The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last

   of you with fishhooks.

3. You will each go straight out through breaks in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon," declares the LORD.

4. "Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.

5. Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings--boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what

   you love to do," declares the Sovereign LORD.

6. "I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not retruned to me," declares the LORD.

7. "I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One

   field had rain; another had none and dried up.

8. People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the 

   LORD.

9. "Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, I struck them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive

   trees, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.

10. "I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled

   your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.

11. "I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a bruning stick snatched from the fire, yet you

   have not returned to me," declares the LORD.

12. "Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel."

13. He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads 

   the high place of the earth--the LORD God Almighty is his name.