Amos 4
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Amos 4
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Ps 22.12; Ezek 39.18; Am 2.8; 3.9; 5.11; 6.1, 6; 8.6 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan
who are on Mount Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”
2 #
Ps 89.35; Isa 37.29; Ezek 29.4; 38.4; Am 6.8; 8.7 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
The time is surely coming upon you
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks.
3Through breaches in the wall you shall leave,
each one straight ahead,
and you shall be flung out into Harmon,#4.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain says the Lord.
4 #
Num 28.3, 4; Deut 14.28; Hos 4.15; Am 3.14; 5.5 Come to Bethel—and transgress;
to Gilgal—and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
5 #
Lev 7.13; 22.18, 21; Hos 9.1, 10 bring a thank offering of leavened bread
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel! says the Lord God.
Israel Rejects Correction
6 #
Isa 3.1; Jer 5.3; 14.18; Hag 2.17 I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
and lack of bread in all your places;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
7And I also withheld the rain from you
when there were still three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city
and send no rain on another city;
one field would be rained upon,
and the field on which it did not rain withered;
8 #
Jer 3.7; 14.4; Ezek 4.16 so two or three towns wandered to one town
to drink water and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
9 #
Deut 28.22; Jer 3.10; Joel 1.4; 2.25; Hag 2.17 I struck you with blight and mildew;
I laid waste#4.9 Cn: Heb the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
10 #
Ex 9.3, 6; Deut 28.27, 60; Jer 11.22; 18.21; 48.15; Joel 2.20 I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;#4.10 Heb with the captivity of your horses
and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
11 #
Isa 13.19; Jer 23.14; Zech 3.2 I overthrew some of you
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
12 #
v 2
; Ezek 13.5Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13 #
Ps 139.2; Jer 10.13; 13.16; Dan 2.28; Am 5.8, 27; Mic 1.3 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
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