Amos 4

1. “Listen, you [lovely] cows of Bashan, 1 who live on Mount Shomron, 1 who oppress the poor and grind down the needy, 1 who say to their husbands, ‘Bring something to drink’:

2. Adonai Elohim has sworn by his holiness 2 that your time is surely coming. 2 “You will be dragged away with hooks, 2 the last of you with fishhooks.

3. You will leave through breaks in the wall, 3 each woman right behind the next, 3 and be sent off to Harmonah,” says Adonai.

4. “Come to Beit-El, and commit crimes; 4 to Gilgal, and commit more crimes! 4 Bring your sacrifices in the morning 4 and your tithes after three days;

5. burn leavened bread as a thank offering; 5 brag in public about your voluntary offerings; 5 because that’s what you love to do, Isra’el!” 5 says Adonai Elohim.

6. “I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, 6 left you nothing to eat in all your villages; 6 still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

7. “I withheld the rain from you 7 three months before the harvest. 7 I made it rain on one city 7 and not on another — 7 one field had rain, 7 while another with no rain dried up;

8. from two or three cities they would stagger to one city 8 for water to drink, but there wasn’t enough; 8 still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

9. “I struck your crops with hot winds and blight, 9 your many gardens and vineyards; 9 the cutter-worms devoured 9 your fig and olive trees; 9 still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

10. “I sent a plague on you like that of Egypt, 10 put your young men to death with the sword; 10 let your horses be captured; 10 and filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps; 10 still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

11. “I overthrew some of you, 11 as when God overthrew S’dom and ‘Amora; 11 you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire; 11 still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

12. “This is why I will deal with you in this way, Isra’el; 12 and because I will deal with you in this way, 12 prepare to meet your God, Isra’el —

13. him who forms mountains and creates wind, 13 who declares to humankind his thoughts, 13 who turns the morning to darkness 13 and strides on the heights of the earth — 13 Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot is his name.”