Amos 4 (NET)

Amos 4:1¹Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 22:12Amos 6:1Amos 5:11Ezek 39:18Eccl 4:11 Kgs 16:24Amos 2:6-8Amos 3:9-10Amos 8:4-6Deut 15:9-11

Amos 4:2²The Sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his own holy character: “Certainly the time is approaching when you will be carried away in baskets, every last one of you in fishermen’s pots.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 16:16Ps 89:35Hab 1:15-16Amos 6:8Isa 37:29Ezek 39:4-5

Amos 4:3³Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The Lord is speaking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:5Ezek 12:12Isa 31:7Matt 16:262 Kgs 25:42 Kgs 7:152 Kgs 7:7-8Isa 2:20Zeph 1:18

Amos 4:4⁴“Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:39Hos 4:15Num 28:3-4Amos 5:5Hos 12:11Hos 9:15Matt 23:32Amos 3:14Eccl 11:9Joel 3:9-12

Amos 4:5⁵Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The Sovereign Lord is speaking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 22:18-21Ps 81:12Hos 9:10Hos 9:1Lev 7:12-13Matt 15:13-14Matt 23:23Matt 6:22 Thess 2:10-12Deut 12:6-7

Amos 4:6⁶“But surely I gave you no food to eat in all your cities; you lacked food everywhere you lived. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speakingCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hag 2:17Jer 5:3Isa 9:13Rev 16:10-11Hos 5:15-6:1Lev 26:26Rev 2:211 Kgs 17:11 Kgs 18:22 Chr 28:22

Amos 4:7⁷“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:26Jer 3:32 Chr 7:13-14Exod 10:23Exod 9:4Isa 5:61 Kgs 8:35-36Deut 11:17Jas 5:17Joel 2:23

Amos 4:8⁸People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speakingCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 4:61 Kgs 18:5Hag 1:6Amos 4:9-11Ezek 4:16-17Hos 7:10Isa 41:17-18Jer 14:3-4Jer 23:14Jer 3:7

Amos 4:9⁹“I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speakingCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:22Hag 2:17Joel 1:4Amos 4:6Amos 7:1-21 Kgs 8:372 Chr 6:28Amos 4:8Deut 28:42Isa 1:5

Amos 4:10¹⁰“I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speakingCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:60Lev 26:252 Kgs 13:7Joel 2:20Deut 28:26-27Deut 7:15Exod 9:3-6Ps 78:49-502 Kgs 13:3Amos 4:6

Amos 4:11¹¹“I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speakingCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:19Zech 3:2Gen 19:24-25Jer 23:142 Pet 2:6Amos 4:6Ezek 22:17-22Jude 1:23Jude 1:71 Cor 3:15

Amos 4:12¹²“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:2-4Jas 4:1-10Amos 9:1-4Mark 13:32-37Ezek 13:5Amos 5:4-15Isa 47:3Luke 21:3-36Luke 14:31-32Matt 24:44-25:13

Amos 4:13¹³For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord God of Heaven’s Armies is his name!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:8Mic 1:3Amos 9:6Isa 47:4Dan 2:28Ps 65:6Deut 33:29Isa 40:12Jer 13:16Amos 3:13