Amos:4

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* Hear this word , you cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria , who oppress the poor , who crush the needy , who say to their husbands , Bring in , that we may drink . * The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days are coming that He will carry you away with meat hooks , and the last of you with fishhooks . * And you shall go out at the breaches , each woman before her ; and you shall be cast into the high fortress , declares Jehovah . * Come to Bethel and transgress ; multiply transgression at Gilgal ; and bring your sacrifices every morning , your tithes every third year ; * and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven ; cry out , call out the free-will offerings ! For so you love to do , O sons of Israel , declares the Lord Jehovah . * And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities , and lack of bread in all your places ; and you have not returned to Me , declares Jehovah . * And I have also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest . And I caused rain to fall on one city , and caused it not to rain on another city . One parcel of land was rained on , and the parcel where it did not rain was dried up . * So two or three cities staggered to one city in order to drink water , but they were not satisfied ; yet you have not returned to Me , declares Jehovah . * I have struck you with blasting and mildew . When your gardens and your vineyards , and your figs , and your olives increased , the locust devoured them ; yet you have not returned to Me , declares Jehovah . * I have sent a plague among you in the manner of Egypt ; I have killed your young men with the sword , along with your captive horses . And I have made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils ; yet you have not returned to Me , declares Jehovah . * I have overthrown some of you , as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah , and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning ; yet you have not returned to Me , declares Jehovah . * Therefore I will do this to you , O Israel : Because of this that I will do to you , prepare to meet your God , O Israel . * For , behold , He who forms mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what his thought is , He who makes the dawn darkness , and treads on the high places of the earth ; Jehovah the God of Hosts , is His name .

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