Amos 4
JPS Tanakh 1917
1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, That are in the mountain of Samaria,
That oppress the poor, that crush the needy,
That say unto their lords: ‘Bring, that we may feast.’
2The Lord GOD hath sworn by His holiness:
Lo, surely the days shall come upon you,
That ye shall be taken away with hooks,
And your residue with fish-hooks.
3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her;
And ye shall be cast into Harmon,

Saith the LORD.

4Come to Beth-el, and transgress,
To Gilgal, and multiply transgression; And bring your sacrifices in the morning,
And your tithes after three days;
5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
And proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them;
For so ye love to do, O ye children of Israel,

Saith the Lord GOD.

6And I also have given you
Cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And want of bread in all your places;
Yet have ye not returned unto Me,

Saith the LORD.

7And I also have withholden the rain from you,
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 unto one city
To drink water, and were not satisfied;
Yet have ye not returned unto Me,

Saith the LORD.

9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew;
The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards
And your fig-trees and your olive-trees
Hath the palmer-worm devoured;
Yet have ye not returned unto Me,

Saith the LORD.

10I have sent among you the pestilence in the way of Egypt;
Your young men have I slain with the sword,
And have carried away your horses;
And I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils;
Yet have ye not returned unto Me,

Saith the LORD.

11I have overthrown some of you,
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
Yet have ye not returned unto Me,

Saith the LORD.

12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel;
Because I will do this unto thee,
Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
And declareth unto man what is his thought,
That maketh the morning darkness,
And treadeth upon the high places of the earth; The LORD, the God of hosts, is His name.
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT
A NEW TRANSLATION

Jewish Publication Society
1917

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