12 Many bulls encompass me;
    (A)strong bulls of (B)Bashan surround me;

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12 Many bulls(A) surround me;(B)
    strong bulls of Bashan(C) encircle me.

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“Hear this word, (A)you cows of Bashan,
    who are (B)on the mountain of Samaria,
(C)who oppress the poor, (D)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
(E)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
(F)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    (G)even the last of you with fishhooks.
(H)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
declares the Lord.

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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

30 Rebuke (A)the beasts that dwell among the reeds,
    the herd of (B)bulls with the calves of the peoples.
(C)Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute;
    scatter the peoples who delight in war.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:30 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

30 Rebuke the beast(A) among the reeds,(B)
    the herd of bulls(C) among the calves of the nations.
Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver.
    Scatter the nations(D) who delight in war.(E)

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27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your (A)holy servant Jesus, (B)whom you anointed, both (C)Herod and (D)Pontius Pilate, along (E)with the Gentiles and (F)the peoples of Israel,

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27 Indeed Herod(A) and Pontius Pilate(B) met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus,(C) whom you anointed.

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Jesus Delivered to Pilate

27 (A)When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people (B)took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

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Judas Hangs Himself

27 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.(A)

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11 (A)“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,
    and neigh like stallions,

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11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(A)
because you frolic like a heifer(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

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18 (A)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them (B)fat beasts of Bashan.

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18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.(A)

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14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat[a] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
    with the very finest[b] of the wheat—
    and you drank foaming wine made from (A)the blood of the grape.

15 “But (B)Jeshurun grew fat, and (C)kicked;
    (D)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(E)then he forsook God (F)who made him
    and scoffed at (G)the Rock of his salvation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
  2. Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat

14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(A)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(B)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(C)

15 Jeshurun[a](D) grew fat(E) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(F) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(G) their Savior.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

(A)Wild oxen shall (B)fall with them,
    and (C)young steers with (D)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

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And the wild oxen(A) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(B)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(C)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

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