Amos 4

1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Deut 15:9 · Deut 28:33 · Deut 32:14 · 1Ki 16:24 · Job 20:19 · +32 more

2The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.Cross-references: Ps 89:35 · Isa 37:29 · Jer 16:16 · Ezek 39:4 · Amos 6:8 · Hab 1:15

3You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Ki 7:7 · 2Ki 7:15 · 2Ki 25:4 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 31:7 · Ezek 12:5 · +3 more

4“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,Cross-references: Num 28:3 · Deut 14:28 · Deut 26:12 · Eccl 11:9 · Ezek 20:39 · Hos 4:15 · +10 more

5offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 7:12 · Lev 22:18 · Lev 23:17 · Deut 12:6 · Ps 81:12 · Hos 9:1 · +7 more

6“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:38 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:2 · 2Ki 4:38 · 2Ki 6:25 · +17 more

7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Ex 9:4 · Ex 9:26 · Ex 10:23 · Lev 26:18 · Lev 26:23 · +19 more

8So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:5 · Isa 41:17 · Jer 3:7 · Jer 14:3 · Jer 23:14 · Ezek 4:16 · +5 more

9“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 28:22 · Deut 28:42 · 1Ki 8:37 · 2Chr 6:28 · Job 36:8 · Isa 1:5 · +10 more

10“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 8:19 · Ex 9:3 · Ex 9:12 · Ex 9:17 · Ex 9:34 · Ex 10:3 · +27 more

11“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Isa 13:19 · Jer 6:28 · Jer 23:14 · Jer 49:18 · Ezek 22:17 · +9 more

12“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.Cross-references: Isa 47:3 · Ezek 13:5 · Ezek 22:30 · Hos 13:8 · Amos 2:14 · Amos 4:2 · +10 more

13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”Cross-references: Ex 10:22 · Ex 14:20 · Deut 32:13 · Deut 33:29 · Job 38:4 · Ps 65:6 · +26 more