2.
The second reproof
4:1-13
Amos 4
:1
4:1
Hear this word,
O heifers of Bashan, which are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who oppress the poor
And crush the needy,
Who say to their lords,
Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 4
:2
4:2
The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness
Indeed days are coming upon you
When one will take you away with hooks,
And your posterity, with fish hooks.
Amos 4
:3
4:3
And you will go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead of her;
And you will cast
yourselves into Harmon, declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:4
4:4
Come to
aBethel, and transgress;
To
bGilgal, and multiply transgression;
And bring your
csacrifices every morning
And your
dtithes every three days,
Amos 4
:5
4:5
And offer in smoke a thank offering out of what is
aleavened;
And proclaim freewill offerings; make
them known;
For you love
them, O children of Israel,
Declares the Lord Jehovah.
Amos 4
:6
4:6
And I also have given you
Cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And want of bread in all your places.
Yet you have
anot returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:7
4:7
And I have also withheld the rain from you
When there was yet three months until the harvest;
And I made it rain on one city,
But on another city I did not make it rain;
One portion was rained on,
And the portion that was not rained on dried up.
Amos 4
:8
4:8
And two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied.
Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:9
4:9
I have stricken you with blight and mildew;
The multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards,
And your fig trees and your olive trees, the cutting
alocust has devoured.
Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:10
4:10
I have sent among you
apestilence after the manner of Egypt;
I have slain your choice young men with the sword, taking your horses captive;
And I have caused the stench of your camp to go up even into your own nostrils.
Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:11
4:11
I have overturned
cities among you,
As when God overturned
aSodom and Gomorrah;
And you were like a brand plucked out of the
bburning.
Yet you have not returned to Me,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 4
:12
4:12
Therefore this is what I will do to you, O Israel;
And because I will do this to you,
1aPrepare to meet your God, O Israel.
Amos 4
:13
4:13
For it is He who forms the mountains and creates the wind
And declares to man what His thought is;
He who makes the morning
adarkness And treads upon the
bhigh places of the earth —
Jehovah the God of hosts is His name!
