{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/amos/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T17:21:11.979Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Amos","bookSlug":"amos","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":9,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, |Bring us drinks!|"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, |The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,| says the Lord Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"|I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"|I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 4 (WEB)","markdown":"[Amos 4](https://primebible.com/web/amos/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/amos/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}