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1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, you who are in the mountain of Samaria, you who oppress the poor, you who crush the needy, you who say to your husbands, “Bring us drinks.” 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Look, the days will come on you when they will take you away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks. 3 You will go out through the breaks in the city wall, each one of you going straight through it, and you will be thrown out toward Harmon —this is Yahweh's declaration.” 4 “Go to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal and multiply sin, bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. 5 Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice with bread; proclaim freewill offerings; announce them, for this pleases you, you people of Israel —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 6 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 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 7 I also withheld rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One piece of land was rained on, but the piece of land where it did not rain dried up. 8 Two or three cities staggered to another city to drink water, but were not satisfied. Yet you have not returned to me —this is Yahweh's declaration. 9 I afflicted you with blight and mildew. The multitude of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees— the locusts devoured them all. Yet you have not returned to me —this is Yahweh's declaration. 10 I sent a plague on you as on Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, carried away your horses, and made the stench of your camp come up to your nostrils. Yet you have not returned to me —this is Yahweh's declaration. 11 I overthrew cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire. Yet you have not returned to me —this is Yahweh's declaration. 12 Therefore I will do something terrible to you, Israel; and because I will do something terrible to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel! 13 For, look, he who forms the mountains also creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mankind, makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth. Yahweh, God of hosts, 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. 1 Psalm 22:12; Amos 6:1; Amos 5:11; Ezekiel 39:18; Ecclesiastes 4:1
  2. 2 Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 89:35; Habakkuk 1:15–16; Isaiah 37:29; Amos 6:8
  3. 3 Ezekiel 12:5; Ezekiel 12:12; Isaiah 31:7; Matthew 16:26; 2 Kings 25:4
  4. 4 Ezekiel 20:39; Hosea 4:15; Numbers 28:3–4; Hosea 9:15; Amos 5:5
  5. 5 Psalm 81:12; Leviticus 22:18–21; Hosea 9:10; Matthew 23:23; Hosea 9:1
  6. 6 Haggai 2:17; Jeremiah 5:3; Isaiah 9:13; Revelation 16:10–11; Leviticus 26:26
  7. 7 Exodus 9:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Isaiah 5:6; 2 Chronicles 7:13–14; Exodus 9:4
  8. 8 Amos 4:6; 1 Kings 18:5; Haggai 1:6; Micah 6:14; Hosea 7:10
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 2:17; Joel 1:4; Amos 7:1–2; Amos 4:6
  10. 10 Deuteronomy 28:60; Leviticus 26:25; Joel 2:20; 2 Kings 13:7; Exodus 9:3–6
  11. 11 Isaiah 13:19; Zechariah 3:2; Genesis 19:24–25; Jeremiah 23:14; 2 Peter 2:6
  12. 12 1 Thessalonians 5:2–4; James 4:1–10; Amos 9:1–4; Mark 13:32–37; Ezekiel 13:5
  13. 13 Amos 5:8; Micah 1:3; Amos 9:6; Isaiah 47:4; Psalm 65:6

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 4:12 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVIII, Chapters 26–29)

    … ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above." Amos also prophesies thus concerning such things: "Prepare thee, that thou mayst invoke thy God, O Israel; for lo, I am binding the thunder, and creating the spirit, and announcing to men their Christ." And in another place he says, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 4:13 Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations (The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son)

    … made; as is shewn by the passage which says that He maketh His Angels Spirits, and that the earth is founded upon its steadfastness (though once for all these things were fixed and made) and that the thunder is made firm and the wind created. Of all these things the Word was given once, but the Action is continuous even …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)