Amos 4

Social and Spiritual Corruption

1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan # 4:1 Ps 22:12; Ezk 39:18

who are on the hill of Samaria,

women who oppress the poor

and crush the needy, # 4:1 Ex 23:3,6; Lv 19:15; 25:35; Dt 15:4–11; Am 5:11; 8:6

who say to their husbands,

“Bring us something to drink.” # 4:1 Am 2:8; 6:6

2The Lord God has sworn # 4:2 Am 6:8; 8:7 by his holiness: # 4:2 Ps 89:35

Look, the days are coming # 4:2 Lit coming on you

when you will be taken away with hooks, # 4:2 Is 37:29; Ezk 38:4

every last one of you with fishhooks. # 4:2 2Kg 19:28; 2Ch 33:10–11

3You will go through breaches in the wall, # 4:3 Jr 52:7

each woman straight ahead,

and you will be driven along toward Harmon.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

4Come to Bethel and rebel;

rebel even more at Gilgal! # 4:4 Am 5:5

Bring your sacrifices every morning, # 4:4 Am 5:21–22

your tenths every three days.

5Offer leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, # 4:5 Lv 7:12

and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, # 4:5 Lv 22:18–21

for that is what you Israelites love to do! # 4:5 Jr 7:9–10; Hs 9:1,10

This is the declaration of the Lord God.

God’s Discipline and Israel’s Apostasy

6I gave you absolutely nothing to eat # 4:6 Lit you cleanness of teeth,# 4:6 Is 3:1; Jr 14:18 in all your cities,

a shortage of food in all your communities,

yet you did not return to me. # 4:6 Is 9:13; Jr 5:3; Hg 2:17

This is the Lord’s declaration.

7I also withheld the rain from you # 4:7 Jr 3:1–3; 5:23–25

while there were still three months until harvest.

I sent rain on one city

but no rain on another. # 4:7 Ex 9:4,26; 10:22–23

One field received rain

while a field with no rain withered. # 4:7 Lv 26:18–19; Jl 1:10–12

8Two or three cities staggered

to another city to drink water # 4:8 1Kg 18:5; Jr 14:4

but were not satisfied, # 4:8 Ezk 4:16; Hg 1:6

yet you did not return # 4:8 Jr 3:7 to me.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

9I struck you with blight and mildew; # 4:9 Dt 28:22; Hg 2:17

the locust devoured # 4:9 Jl 1:4; Am 7:1–2

your many gardens and vineyards,

your fig trees and olive trees, # 4:9 Dt 28:38–42; Jl 1:4–7,12

yet you did not return to me. # 4:9 Jr 3:10

This is the Lord’s declaration.

10I sent plagues like those of Egypt; # 4:10 Ex 11:4–5; Dt 28:27,60

I killed your young men with the sword, # 4:10 Jr 11:22; 18:21; 48:15

along with your captured horses. # 4:10 2Kg 13:3,7

I caused the stench of your camp

to fill your nostrils, # 4:10 Is 34:3

yet you did not return to me. # 4:10 Is 9:13

This is the Lord’s declaration.

11I overthrew some of you

as I # 4:11 Lit God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, # 4:11 Gn 19:24–25

and you were like a burning stick

snatched from a fire, # 4:11 Zch 3:1–2

yet you did not return to me # 4:11 Is 9:13 —

This is the Lord’s declaration.

12Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you,

and since I will do that to you,

Israel, prepare to meet your God! # 4:12 Is 32:11; 64:2; Jr 5:22

13He is here:

the one who forms the mountains, # 4:13 Jb 38:4–7; Ps 65:6; Is 40:12

creates the wind, # 4:13 Ps 135:7

and reveals his thoughts to man, # 4:13 Ps 139:2; Dn 2:30

the one who makes the dawn out of darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth. # 4:13 Mc 1:3

The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. # 4:13 Am 5:8–9,27; 9:5–6

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Amos 4

1Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan,

that are on Mt Shomron, which oppress the poor,

which crush the needy, which say to their adonim:

Bring, and let us drink.

2Adonoi Hashem hath sworn by His Kodesh that,

hinei, the yamim shall come upon you,

that He will take you away with hooks,

and the last of you with fishhooks.

3And ye shall go out of the breaks in the wall,

every cow right behind the next;

and ye shall be cast out toward Harmon,

saith Hashem.

4Come to Beit-El, and transgress;

at Gilgal multiply peysha'im;

and bring your zevakhim every boker, and your ma'asrot (tithes) every third day;

5And offer a todah thank offering with chametz (leavened bread),

and proclaim and publish the nedavot (freewill offerings);

for this ye love, O Bnei Yisroel,

saith Adonoi Hashem.

6And I also have given you

cleanness of teeth#4:6 i.e., famine in all your towns,

and want of lechem in all your places;

yet have ye not returned unto Me,

saith Hashem.

7And also I have withheld the geshem from you,

when there were yet shloshah chodashim to the harvest;

and I caused it to rain upon one town,

and caused it not to rain upon another town;

one chelek (part) was rained upon,

and the chelek, whereupon it rained not, withered.

8So two or three towns wandered unto one town,

to drink mayim, but they were not satisfied;

yet have ye not returned unto Me,

saith Hashem.

9I have struck you with blight and mildew;

when your ganim (gardens) and your kramim (vineyards)

and your fig trees and your olive trees increased,

the locust devoured them;

yet have ye not returned unto Me,

saith Hashem.

10I have sent among you the dever after the manner of Mitzrayim;

your bocherim have I slain with the cherev,

and have taken away your susim;

and I have made the stench

of your machanot to come up unto your nostrils;

yet have ye not returned unto Me,

saith Hashem.

11I have overthrown some of you,

as Elohim overthrew Sodom and Amora (Gomorrah),

and ye were like a firebrand snatched from the burning;

yet have ye not returned unto Me,

saith Hashem.

12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Yisroel;

and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet Eloheicha, O Yisroel.

13For, hinei, He that formeth the harim, and createth the ruach,

and declareth unto man what is his thought,

that maketh the shachar darkness,

and treadeth upon the high places of the earth,

Hashem Elohei Tzva'os Shmo.

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