Amos 3:8-5:4

English Standard Version

⁹ Proclaim to the strongholds in ^(B)Ashdod
    and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on ^(C)the mountains of Samaria,
    and see the great tumults within her,
    and ^(D)the oppressed in her midst.”
¹⁰ “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
    ^(E)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

^(F)“An adversary shall surround the land
    and bring down^[a] your defenses from you,
    and ^(G)your strongholds shall be plundered.”

¹³ “Hear, ^(K)and testify against the house of Jacob,”
    declares the Lord God, ^(L)the God of hosts,
¹⁴ “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,
    ^(M)I will punish the altars of Bethel,
and ^(N)the horns of the altar shall be cut off
    and fall to the ground.
^15 (O)I will strike ^(P)the winter house along with ^(Q)the summer house,
    and ^(R)the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses^[c] shall come to an end,”
declares the Lord.

4 “Hear this word, ^(S)you cows of Bashan,
    who are ^(T)on the mountain of Samaria,
^(U)who oppress the poor, ^(V)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
^2 (W)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(X)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(Y)even the last of you with fishhooks.
^3 (Z)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
declares the Lord.

^4 (AA)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(AB)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(AC)bring your ^(AD)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(AE)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ^(AF)freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(AG)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.

⁷ “I also ^(AJ)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(AK)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 ^(AL)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(AM)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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

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

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(AU)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(AV)as a brand^[e] plucked out of the burning;
^(AW)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, ^(AX)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(AY)declares to man what is his thought,
^(AZ)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(BA)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(BB)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

² “Fallen, no more to rise,
    is ^(BD)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

“The city that went out a thousand
    shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out a hundred
    shall have ten left
    to the house of Israel.”

^(BE)“Seek me and live;