Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, 'Bring us some drinks!'
Amos 4:2 The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: 'The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.
Amos 4:3 You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:4 Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.
Amos 4:5 Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings-- boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,' declares the Sovereign LORD.
Amos 4:6 I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:7 I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
Amos 4:8 People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:9 Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:10 I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:11 I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,' declares the LORD.
Amos 4:12 Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.'
Amos 4:13 He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth-- the LORD God Almighty is his name.