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Judgment on the Women of Israel

“Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan,
who live on the Samaritan mountains,
    who oppress the poor,
who rob the needy,
    and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!”

The Lord God has taken a sacred oath:[a]

“The day is coming when they[b] will take you away on fishhooks,
    every last one of you on fishhooks.
Each of you will go out through the breaches of the walls[c]
    straight to Mt. Hermon,”[d]
        declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Lit. oath on his holiness
  2. Amos 4:2 Lit. coming upon you, and he; i.e. the invading forces personified as an individual
  3. Amos 4:3 The Heb. lacks of the walls
  4. Amos 4:3 Heb. Harmonah

Israel Has Not Returned to God

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan(A) on Mount Samaria,(B)
    you women who oppress the poor(C) and crush the needy(D)
    and say to your husbands,(E) “Bring us some drinks!(F)
The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(G) will surely come
when you will be taken away(H) with hooks,(I)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]
You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(J)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[b]
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets
  2. Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression