Amos - Chapter 4 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that {cf15I 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 {cf15I cow at that which is} before her; and ye shall cast {cf15I them} into the palace, saith the LORD.
  • 4. Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, {cf15I and} your tithes after three years:
  • 5. And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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: {cf15I 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 {cf15I is} his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, {cf15I is} his name.
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