Amos 4

4^aHear this word, ^bye kine of Bashan, that are in ^bbthe mountain of ^cSamaria,

Which ^doppress the poor, which ^dcrush the needy,

Which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

²The Lord God ^ehath sworn by his holiness,

That, lo, the days shall come upon you,

That ^fhe will take you away with hooks,

And your ^gposterity with fishhooks.

³And ^hye shall go out at the breaches, every cow ⁱat that which is before her;

And ^||ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.

^4kCome to ^lBeth-el, and ^lltransgress;

^mAt Gilgal multiply transgression;

And ⁿbring your sacrifices every morning,

And ^oyour tithes after ^†three years:

⁵And ^†offer ^pa sacrifice of thanksgiving ^qwith leaven,

And proclaim and publish ^qqthe free offerings:

For ^†this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

⁶And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

And ^rwant of bread in all your places:

^sYet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

⁷And also ^tI have withholden the rain from you,

^uWhen there were yet three months to the harvest:

And I ^vcaused 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 ^vvwandered unto one city, to drink water;

But they were not satisfied:

^sYet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

^9wI have smitten you with blasting and mildew:

^||When your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased,

^xThe palmerworm ^xxdevoured them:

^sYet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

¹⁰I have sent among you the pestilence ^||yafter the manner of Egypt:

Your young men have I slain with the sword, ^†and ^zhave taken away your horses;

And I have made ^athe stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:

^sYet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

¹¹I have overthrown some of you, ^bas God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

And ye were as ^cda firebrand ^ceplucked out of the burning:

^sYet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

¹²Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:

And because I will do this unto thee,

^fPrepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

¹³For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the ^||wind,

And ^gdeclareth unto man what is his thought,

^hThat maketh the morning ⁱdarkness,

And ^ktreadeth ^klupon the high places of the earth,

^mThe Lord, ⁿThe God of hosts, is his name.