Amos 4

¹Hear this word , you cows of Bashan , who are on the mountain of Samaria , who oppress the poor , who crush the needy , who say to your husbands , Bring , that we may drink !

²The Lord God has sworn by his holiness that , behold , the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks , even the last of you with fishhooks .

³And you shall go out through the breaches , each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon , declares the Lord.

⁴Come to Bethel , and transgress ; to Gilgal , and multiply transgression ; bring your sacrifices every morning , your tithes every three days ;

⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened , and proclaim freewill offerings , publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel ! declares the Lord God.

⁶I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities , and lack of bread in all your places , yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

⁷I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest ; I would send rain on one city , and send no rain on another city ; one field would have rain , and the field on which it did not rain would wither ;

⁸so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water , and would not be satisfied ; yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

⁹I struck you with blight and mildew ; your many gardens and your vineyards , your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured ; yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

¹⁰I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt ; I killed your young men with the sword , and carried away your horses , and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils ; yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

¹¹I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah , and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning ; yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

¹²Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel ; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God , O Israel !

¹³For behold , he who forms the mountains and creates the wind , and declares to man what is his thought , who makes the morning darkness , and treads on the heights of the earth — the Lord, the God of hosts , is his name !