Amos 4 — FBV
4Verse 1Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan+who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands,+“Bring us drinks!”Verse 2The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: Watch out! For the time is coming when they will drag you away with hooks, each one of you will be like a fish on a hook.Verse 3You will leave through breaches in the city walls, thrown out in the direction of Mount Hermon.Verse 4Why don't you go to Bethel and sin? Go to Gilgal and add to your sins even more?+Offer your sacrifices in the morning, bring your tithes after three days.Verse 5Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast,+and announce what you're giving as freewill offerings so everyone will know. This is what you love to do! declares the Lord God.Verse 6It was I who made sure you had nothing to eat+in all your cities, and a lack of food wherever you lived, but still you wouldn't return to me, says the Lord.Verse 7It was I who kept the rain from falling when there were still three months before harvest.+One city would have rain, while another would not. One field would have rain, another would dry up from lack of rain.Verse 8People wandered from town to town looking for water, yet were still thirsty. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.Verse 9I struck your many farms and vineyards with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your fig trees and olive trees. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.Verse 10I sent a plague on you like I did in Egypt. I killed your young men in battle; I took away your horses; I made you smell the stench of dead bodies in your camps. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.Verse 11Some of you I destroyed as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled out of a fire. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.Verse 12Therefore, this is what I am going to do to you, Israel. Because I am going to do this, Israel, prepare to meet your God!Verse 13Watch! The One who made the mountains, who created the winds, who reveals his thoughts to humankind, who turns the sunlight into darkness, who walks on the high places of the earth—the Lord God of power is his name!