Amos 4:4-13

English Standard Version

^4 (A)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(B)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(C)bring your ^(D)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(E)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ^(F)freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(G)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.

⁷ “I also ^(J)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(K)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(L)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(M)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

^9 (N)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(O)the locust devoured;
^(P)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence ^(Q)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(R)carried away your horses,^[a]
    and ^(S)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(T)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(U)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(V)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(W)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For behold, ^(X)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(Y)declares to man what is his thought,
^(Z)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(AA)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(AB)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!