Amos 4:1–5:27
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Amos 4:1–5:27 · Psalm 140 (MT: 141) · Proverbs 29:26 · Revelation 4:1–11
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1Hear ye this word, ye 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.
1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
2The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, saith the Lord.
3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
4Ye went into Bæthel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at Galgala; and ye brought your meat-offerings in the morning, [and] your tithes every third day.
4Come to Beth–el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, saith the Lord .
5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6And I will give you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.
6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain : one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one cityto drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.
8So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your oliveyards: yet not [even] thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps : yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel.
12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The LordGod Almighty is his name.
13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
1Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2The virgin of Israel has fallenupon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left a hundred, and [in that] out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left tento the house of Israel.
3For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
4For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5But seek not Bæthel, and go not in to Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bæthel shall be as that which is not.
5But seek not Beth–el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer–sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth–el shall come to nought.
6Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
6Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth–el.
7[It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
9who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses , but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.
11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LordGod Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16Therefore thus saith the LordGod Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
16Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.
18Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness ?
20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat -offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace -offerings .
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices , O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name .
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.