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Amos 4:1-13 — Israel Has Not Returned to God

Amos.4.1-13

¹Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria, you women who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring us something to drink!' ²The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness: 'Behold, the days are coming upon you when they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fishhooks. ³And you will go out through the breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,' declares Yahweh. ⁴Go to Bethel and transgress; at Gilgal multiply your transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. ⁵Burn a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, make them known! For this is what you love to do, O children of Israel,' declares the Lord Yahweh. ⁶I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to me,' declares Yahweh. ⁷I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest . I caused it to rain on one city, and on another city I did not cause it to rain. One plot of land was rained upon, and the plot of land that was not rained upon withered. ⁸So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me,' declares Yahweh. ⁹I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured the multitude of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees; yet you did not return to me,' declares Yahweh. ¹⁰I sent a plague among you like the plague of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I made the stench of your camps rise up even into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,' declares Yahweh. ¹¹I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me,' declares Yahweh. ¹²Therefore, this is what I will do to you, O Israel; and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! ¹³For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his thought is, who makes the dawn into darkness , and treads upon the high places of the earth—Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is his name.

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4/11/2026

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