[[Amos 3|<< Amos 3]] | [[Amos|Amos]] | [[Amos 5|Amos 5 >>]] ### Amos 4 1 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. ^1 2 The Lord GOD has 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. ^2 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. ^3 4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, _and_ your tithes after three years: ^4 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. ^5 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. ^6 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. ^7 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. ^8 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. ^9 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. ^10 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. ^11 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. ^12 13 For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creats the wind, and declares unto man what _is_ his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, _is_ his name. ^13