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Amos 4 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Israel Has Not Returned to God

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:1 - Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:2 - The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: “The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:3 - You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[fn]”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 - “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:5 - Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,”

declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:6 - “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:8 - People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:9 - “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 - “I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:12 - “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:13 - He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD God Almighty is his name.
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Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets
Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression
Or days
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Amos Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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