1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, you women who live on the hills of Samaria, who oppress the weak and abuse the needy, who order your husbands, "Bring us something to drink quickly!"
2 Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, "The time is coming upon you when you will be dragged away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.
3 Through the breaks in the wall you will go out, straight ahead, driven out all the way to Hermon." It is Yahweh who speaks.
4 "Come, sinners, to the Sanctuary in Bethel, go down to Gilgal and sin even more! Each morning bring your sacrifices and on the third day your tithes. Burn leavened food for thanksgiving.
5 Proclaim in public your freewill offering, for this is what makes you happy, people of Israel," says Yahweh.
6 "Though I have made your teeth clean of food in every city, though I have made your bread in all your dwellings scarce, yet you did not return to me," says Yahweh.
7 "Though I withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away, though I sent rain upon one town and withheld it from another,
8 though people staggered from town to town, and found no water to quench their thirst, yet you never returned to me," says Yahweh.
9 "Though with blight and calamities I have stricken your garden and vineyard, though your fig and olive trees were devoured by the locusts, yet you never returned to me," says Yahweh.
10 "Though as in Egypt I sent you a plague, though I slew your young men with the sword along with your captured horses, and nauseated you with stench from your own dead, yet you never returned to me," says Yahweh.
11 "I overthrew you, a divine punishment, as happened to Sodom and Gomorrah; you were like a brand snatched from the blaze, yet you never returned to me," says Yahweh.
12 "Therefore I will deal with you in my own way, Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare, Israel, to meet your God!"
13 For it is he who makes the thunder and creates the winds, and makes people know why he did, who turns dawn to twilight, who strides upon the heights of the earth - Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.
Versículos relacionados com Amos, 4:
Chapter 4 of the book of Amos is a message of rebuke to Israel for its disobedience and lack of repentance. God brings several accusations against the people, showing that He had disciplined them in various ways to turn to them, but they persisted in their wicked ways. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Amos 4:
Amos 4:6- "I gave them a scarce cereal in all cities, lack of bread in all their villages, and yet you didn't go back to me," God shows how he had tried to get Israel's attention through scarcity. of food, but still the people did not repent of their ways.
Amos 4:8- "But yet you have not come back to me," God continues to show how she had sent plagues and pests about the people, but they still did not repent and came back to him.
Amos 4:12- "So I will do you, O Israel! And because I will do this, get you, O Israel, to meet you with your God," God warns the people of Israel that if they continue in their wicked paths, he will discipline them even more severely.
Amos 4:13- "For he is the one who forms the hills, who creates the wind, and who declares to the human being what his thought is; God of hosts is His name, "God shows His power and authority over all things, including the life and destiny of Israel.
Amos 4:14- "Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and thus the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you say," God urges Israel to seek good and avoid evil, showing that only So he will be with them and bless their lives.
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