‏ Amos 4

1Hear you⌃ this word, you⌃ heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria,that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink. 2The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shalltake you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons. 3And you⌃ shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you⌃ shall becast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord. 4You⌃ went into Bethel, and sinned, and you⌃ multiplied sin at Galgala; and you⌃ broughtyour meat-offerings in the morning,and your tithes every third day. 5And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud thatthe children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord. 6And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all yourplaces: yet you⌃ returned not to me, says the Lord. 7Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain uponone city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which Ishall not rain shall be dried up. 8Andthe inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and theyshall not be satisfied: yet you⌃ have not returned to me, says the Lord. 9I struck you with parching, and with blight: you⌃ multiplied your gardens, your vineyards,and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive yards: yet noteven thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord. 10I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and killed your young men with the sword,together with your horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps:yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord. 11I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you⌃ became as a brand pluckedout of the fire: yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord. 12Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepareto call on your God, O Israel. 13For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaimsto men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth,The Lord God Almighty is his name.

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