Amos · Literal Standard Version
Amos 4 Literal Standard Version
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1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, || Who [are] on the mountain of Samaria, || Who are oppressing the poor, || Who are bruising the needy, || Who are saying to their lords: “Bring in, and we drink.”
1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
2 Lord YHWH has sworn by His holiness, || “Behold, days are coming on you, || And He has taken you away with hooks, || And your posterity with fish-hooks.
2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
3 And [by] breaches you go forth, || A woman before her, || And you have cast down the high place,” || A declaration of YHWH.
3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
4 “Enter Beth-El, and transgress, || At Gilgal multiply transgression, || And bring in your sacrifices every morning, || Your tithes every third year.
4 “Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
5 And burn a thank-offering with leaven as incense, || And proclaim willing gifts, sound! For so you have loved, O sons of Israel,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH.
5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
6 “And I also—I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, || And lack of bread in all your places, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
7 “And I also—I have withheld from you the rain, || While yet three months to harvest, || And I have sent rain on one city, || And on another city I do not send rain, || One portion is rained on, || And the portion on which it does not rain withers.
7 “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
8 And two or three cities have wandered, || To the same city to drink water, || And they are not satisfied, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
9 “I have struck you with blasting and with mildew, || The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, || And of your figs, and of your olives, || The palmer-worm eats, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
10 “I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, || I have slain your choice ones by sword, || With your captive horses, || And I cause the stink of your camps to come up—Even into your nostrils, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
10 “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
11 “I have overturned among you, || Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, || And you are as a brand delivered from a burning, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
11 “I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
12 “Therefore, thus I do to you, O Israel, at last, || Because this I do to you, || Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”
12 “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
13 For behold, the Former of mountains, and Creator of wind, || And the Declarer to man what [is] His thought, || He is making dawn obscurity, || And is treading on high places of earth, || YHWH, God of Hosts, [is] His Name!
13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 22:12; Amos 6:1; Amos 5:11; Ezekiel 39:18; Ecclesiastes 4:1
- 2 Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 89:35; Habakkuk 1:15–16; Isaiah 37:29; Amos 6:8
- 3 Ezekiel 12:5; Ezekiel 12:12; Isaiah 31:7; Matthew 16:26; 2 Kings 25:4
- 4 Ezekiel 20:39; Hosea 4:15; Numbers 28:3–4; Hosea 9:15; Amos 5:5
- 5 Psalm 81:12; Leviticus 22:18–21; Hosea 9:10; Matthew 23:23; Hosea 9:1
- 6 Haggai 2:17; Jeremiah 5:3; Isaiah 9:13; Revelation 16:10–11; Leviticus 26:26
- 7 Exodus 9:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Isaiah 5:6; 2 Chronicles 7:13–14; Exodus 9:4
- 8 Amos 4:6; 1 Kings 18:5; Haggai 1:6; Micah 6:14; Hosea 7:10
- 9 Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 2:17; Joel 1:4; Amos 7:1–2; Amos 4:6
- 10 Deuteronomy 28:60; Leviticus 26:25; Joel 2:20; 2 Kings 13:7; Exodus 9:3–6
- 11 Isaiah 13:19; Zechariah 3:2; Genesis 19:24–25; Jeremiah 23:14; 2 Peter 2:6
- 12 1 Thessalonians 5:2–4; James 4:1–10; Amos 9:1–4; Mark 13:32–37; Ezekiel 13:5
- 13 Amos 5:8; Micah 1:3; Amos 9:6; Isaiah 47:4; Psalm 65:6
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