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
American Standard Version
4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; 5 and [a]offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, [b]and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 11 I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth—Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
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