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Amos 4 Young's Literal Translation

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Textus Receptus
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1898
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who [are] in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.' 2 Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness, That lo, days are coming upon you, And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And [by] breaches ye go forth, A woman [at that] over-against her, And ye have cast down the high place, An affirmation of Jehovah. 4 Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices, Every third year your tithes. 5 And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 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 ye have not turned back unto Me, an affirmation of Jehovah. 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 raineth not withereth. 8 And wandered have two or three cities, Unto the same city to drink water, And they are not satisfied, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and with mildew, The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, And of your figs, and of your olives, Eat doth the palmer-worm, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 10 I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up — even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 11 I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 12 Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, 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, Jehovah, 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)