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.

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