Amos 4:4-13
New American Standard Bible
4 “Enter Bethel and do wrong;
In Gilgal multiply wrongdoing!
(A)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days.
5 [a]Offer a (B)thanksgiving offering also from that which is leavened,
And proclaim (C)[b]voluntary offerings, make them known.
For so you (D)love to do, you sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord God.
6 “But I gave you also (E)cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
Yet you have (F)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
7 “Furthermore, I (G)withheld the rain from you
While there were still three months until harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
But on (H)another city I would not send rain;
One part would be rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.
8 So the people of two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink (I)water,
But would (J)not be satisfied;
Yet you have (K)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
9 “I (L)struck you with scorching wind and mildew;
The (M)caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have (N)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
10 “I sent a (O)plague among you [c]as in Egypt;
I (P)killed your young men with the sword, along with your (Q)captured horses,
And I made the (R)stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have (S)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
11 “I overthrew you, as (T)God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a (U)log snatched from a fire;
Yet you have (V)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore so I will do to you, Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to (W)meet your God, Israel.”
13 For behold, He who (X)forms mountains and (Y)creates the wind,
And (Z)declares to a person what are His thoughts,
He who (AA)makes dawn into darkness
And (AB)treads on the high places of the earth,
(AC)The Lord God of armies is His name.
Amos 4:4-13
Revised Standard Version
4 “Come to Bethel, and transgress;
to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
says the Lord God.
Israel Rejects Correction
6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in all your places,
yet you did not return to me,”
says the Lord.
7 “And I also withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
I would send rain upon one city,
and send no rain upon another city;
one field would be rained upon,
and the field on which it did not rain withered;
8 so two or three cities wandered to one city
to drink water, and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,”
says the Lord.
9 “I smote you with blight and mildew;
I laid waste[a] your gardens and your vineyards;
your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
yet you did not return to me,”
says the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
I slew your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;[b]
and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me,”
says the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor′rah,
and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
yet you did not return to me,”
says 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 lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind,
and declares to man what is his thought;
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
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