AM-4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the

mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the

needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

AM-4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the

days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks,

and your posterity with fishhooks.

AM-4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that

which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace,

saith the LORD.

AM-4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply

transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and]

your tithes after three years:

AM-4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and

proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you,

O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

AM-4:6 And 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.

AM-4:7 And also I 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.

AM-4:8 So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink

water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned

unto me, saith the LORD.

AM-4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your

gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive

trees increased, the palmerworm devoured [them]: yet have ye not

returned unto me, saith the LORD.

AM-4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of

Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have

taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps

to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me,

saith the LORD.

AM-4:11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom

and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the

burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

AM-4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and]

because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O

Israel.

AM-4:13 For, 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. 1

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