Amos 4:1-9 ▼

1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, |Bring us something to drink.|

2 The LORD has sworn by his holiness: |Look, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,| says the LORD.

4 |Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,| says the Lord GOD.

6 |I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me,| says the LORD.

7 |I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it did not rain withered.

8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me,| says the LORD.

9 |I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me,| says the LORD.