Amos 4 KJV Easy Read Bible

KJV Easy Read Bible

1Hear this word, you^p cattle 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.

2The Lord God has sworn by His holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you^p, that He will take you^p away with hooks, and your^p posterity with fishhooks. Adonai^p.f. Jehovah^s.f.

3And you^p shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and you^p shall cast them into the palace, says the Lord. broken places; put them in prison

4Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your^p sacrifices every morning, and your^p tithes after three years:

5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this likes you^p, O you^p children of Israel, says the Lord God. yeast

Israel Did Not Accept Correction

6And I also have given you^p cleanness of teeth in all your^p cities, and want of bread in all your^p places: yet have you^p not returned to Me, says the Lord.

7And also I have withheld the rain from you^p, 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.

8So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have you^p not returned to Me, says the Lord.

9I have smitten you^p with blasting and mildew: when your^p gardens and your^p vineyards and your^p fig trees and your^p olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have you^p not returned to Me, says the Lord. blight

10I have sent among you^p the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your^p young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your^p horses; and I have made the stink of your^p camps to come up to your^p nostrils: yet have you^p not returned to Me, says the Lord.

11I have overthrown some of you^p, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you^p were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you^p not returned to me, says the Lord.

12Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

13For, lo, He that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to 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. Elohe Tsebaoth

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