Old Testament · Prophets

Amos chapter 4

Listen to this, you up on the hill of Samaria, you who the poor and grind down the ones who have nothing, you who say to your husbands, “Bring us another drink.”The Master Yahweh has : the days are coming for you when they will haul you away with , the last of you with fishhooks.You will go out through the broken walls, each one of you straight ahead, and you will be thrown out toward , declares Yahweh.Come to and with me. Come to Gilgal and break faith all the more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, every three days.Burn as a thank offering. Shout out your , make sure everyone hears, since that is what you love, people of Israel, declares the Master Yahweh.I gave you in every one of your cities and no bread in any of your towns, yet you did not , declares Yahweh.I held the rain back from you with . I would send rain on one town and hold it back from the next. One field would get rain, and the field with no rain dried up.Two or three towns staggered to another town looking for water, and there was never enough, yet you did not come back to me, declares Yahweh.I struck your fields with . The ate your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees, yet you did not come back to me, declares Yahweh.I sent a plague against you . I killed your young men with the sword while your horses were led away. I made the stink of your camp rise into your own noses, yet you did not come back to me, declares Yahweh.I overturned some of you the way God overturned , and you were , yet you did not come back to me, declares Yahweh.So this is what I will do to you, Israel. And because I am going to do this to you, get ready to meet your God, Israel.Look at him: the one who shapes the mountains and makes the , who tells a human being , who turns the dawn into darkness and walks the high ridges of the earth. Yahweh, , is his name.