Amos 4
1HEAR this word, ye heifers of Basanitis, ye who are on the mountain of Samaria; who tyrannise over the distressed and trample the needy, who say to your masters, Bring and let us drink!
2The Lord sweareth by his Holies, and lo! days are coming upon you when fiery pestilent men will seize you with arms, and throw them with you into boiling kettles;
3and you shall be dragged out naked over against one another, and cast out naked on Romman mountain, saith the Lord.
4You have gone to Baithel and committed transgression, [gone] to Galgala and multiplied transgressions, and have offered your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days;
5for having publicly read a law they proclaimed thanksgivings. Proclaim them, because in such things the children of Israel delight, saith the Lord.
6But as for Me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places.
7When you returned not to Me, saith the Lord, I withheld from you the rain three months before harvest, with an intent to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part was to be watered, and the part on which I did not rain, to be dried up,
8so that two or three cities should crowd to one city for drink and not be satisfied.
9And when you turned not to Me, saith the Lord, I smote you with blasting and mildew. You multiplied your gardens: the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive orchards.
10When even for this you turned not to Me, saith the Lord, I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to Me, saith the Lord,
11I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire.
12Now as even for this you have not turned to Me, saith the Lord, therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, O Israel, to invoke thy God:
13for behold here am I, Who give strength to thunder—Who create wind, and proclaim for men His anointed one—Who make the morning dawn, and thick darkness, and Who walk on the high places of the earth; Whose name is the Lord God, Omnipotent.