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1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, |Bring us more to drink!| 2 The sovereign LORD confirms this oath by his own holy character: |Certainly the time is approaching when you will be carried away in baskets, every last one of you in fishermen's pots. 3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.| The LORD is speaking! 4 Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day! 5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites.| The sovereign LORD is speaking! 6 But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.| The LORD is speaking! 7 I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up. 8 People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me.| The LORD is speaking! Amos 4:1-8, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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