Amos:4

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* Hear this word , you cows of Bashan , who are on the mountain of Samaria , Who oppress the poor , Who crush the needy , Who say to your husbands , "Bring wine , let us drink !" * The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness : "Behold , the days shall come upon you When He will take you away with fishhooks , And your posterity with fishhooks . * You will go out through broken walls , Each one straight ahead of her , And you will be cast into Harmon ," Says the LORD . * "Come to Bethel and transgress , At Gilgal multiply transgression ; Bring your sacrifices every morning , Your tithes every three days . * Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven , Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings ; For this you love , You children of Israel !" Says the Lord GOD . * "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities . And lack of bread in all your places ; Yet you have not returned to Me ," Says the LORD . * "I also withheld rain from you , When there were still three months to the harvest . I made it rain on one city , I withheld rain from another city . One part was rained upon , And where it did not rain the part withered . * So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water , But they were not satisfied ; Yet you have not returned to Me ," Says the LORD . * "I blasted you with blight and mildew . When your gardens increased , Your vineyards , Your fig trees , And your olive trees , The locust devoured them ; Yet you have not returned to Me ," Says the LORD . * "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt ; Your young men I killed with a sword , Along with your captive horses ; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils ; Yet you have not returned to Me ," Says the LORD . * "I overthrew some of you , As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah , And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning ; Yet you have not returned to Me ," Says the LORD . * "Therefore thus will I do to you , O Israel ; Because I will do this to you , Prepare to meet your God , O Israel !" * For behold , He who forms mountains , And creates the wind , Who declares to man what his thought is , And makes the morning darkness , Who treads the high places of the earth -- The LORD God of hosts is His name .

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