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 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 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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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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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 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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Footnotes

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

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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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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