1 Listen to this word, you fat cows that are on the mountain of Samaria, you who make false accusations against the destitute and crush the poor, who say to your nobles, “Bring, and we will drink.”
2 The Lord God has sworn in his holiness: behold, the days that will overcome you and that will impale you on poles, and that will place what remains of you in boiling pots.
3 And you will go out through the breaches, one over another, and you will be cast out into Harmon, says the Lord.
4 Come to Bethel and behave impiously, to Gilgal and increase betrayals. And bring daybreak to your victims, your tithes in three days.
5 And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven. And call for voluntary oblations, and announce it. For such is your will, sons of Israel, says the Lord God.
6 Therefore, because of this, I have given you dull teeth in every one of your cities, and a lack of bread in all your places. And you have not been turned back towards me, says the Lord.
7 Therefore, I have withheld the rains from you, when there were still three months left until the harvest. And I rained on one city, and I did not rain on another city; one part was rained on, and the part on which I did not rain, dried out.
8 And two and three cities went to one city, in order to drink water, and they were not satisfied. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
9 I struck you with a burning wind and with yellowing; the caterpillar has consumed your many gardens and your vineyards, your olive groves and your fig groves. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
10 I sent death to you by way of Egypt; I struck your youths with the sword, even bringing captivity to your horses. And I made the stench of your camp ascend into your nostrils. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
11 I overturned you, just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like an ember seized from the fire. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
12 Because of this, I will do these things to you, Israel. But after I have done these things to you, Israel, be prepared to meet your God.
13 For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind and announces his speech to man, who makes the morning mist and steps over the heights of the earth: the Lord 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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