Amos 4

₁You women of Samaria

are fat cows!

You ill-treat and abuse

the poor and needy,

then you say to your husbands,

“Bring us more drinks!”

₂I, the LORD God, have sworn

by my own name

that your time is coming.

Not one of you will be left—

you will be taken away

by sharp hooks.

₃You will be dragged through holes

in your city walls,

and you will be thrown

towards Harmon.

I, the LORD, have spoken!

₄Come to Bethel and Gilgal.

Sin all you want!

Offer sacrifices the next morning

and bring a tenth of your crops

on the third day.

₅Bring offerings to show me

how thankful you are.

Gladly bring more offerings

than I have demanded.

You really love to do this.

I, the LORD God, have spoken!

₆I, the LORD, took away the food

from every town and village,

but still you rejected me.

₇Three months before harvest,

I kept back the rain.

Sometimes I would let it fall

on one town or field

but not on another,

and pastures dried up.

₈People from two or three towns

would go to a town

that still had water,

but it wasn't enough.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the LORD, have spoken!

₉I dried up your grain fields;

your gardens and vineyards

turned brown.

Locusts ate your fig trees

and olive orchards,

but even then you rejected me.

I, the LORD, have spoken!

₁₀I did terrible things to you,

just as I did to Egypt—

I killed your young men in war;

I let your horses be stolen,

and I made your camp stink

with dead bodies.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the LORD, have spoken!

₁₁I destroyed many of you,

just as I did the cities

of Sodom and Gomorrah.

You were a burning stick

I rescued from the fire.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the LORD, have spoken!

₁₂Now, Israel, I myself

will deal with you.

Get ready to face your God!

₁₃I created the mountains

and the wind.

I let humans know

what I am thinking.

I bring darkness at dawn

and step over hills.

I am the LORD God All-Powerful!