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Amos 4

13 aligned verses; 13 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse KJV King James Version BSB Berean Standard Bible
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan , that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor , which crush the needy, which say to their masters , Bring , and let us drink.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands , Bring us more to drink.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness , that, lo , the days shall come upon you , that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness : “Behold , the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
And ye shall go out at the breaches , every cow at that which is before her ; and ye shall cast them into the palace , saith the LORD.
You will go out through broken walls , each one straight ahead of her , and you will be cast out toward Harmon , declares the LORD.
Come to Bethel , and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal ! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven , and proclaim and publish the free offerings : for this liketh you , O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering , and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings . For that is what you children of Israel love to do , declares the Lord GOD.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread , yet you did not return to Me, declares the LORD.
And also I have withholden the rain from you , when there were yet three months to the harvest : and I caused it to rain upon one city , and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another . One field received rain; another without rain withered.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city , to drink water ; but they were not satisfied : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied ; yet you did not return to Me, declares the LORD.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew : when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased , the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards ; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me, declares the LORD.
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt : your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses ; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt ; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses . I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me, declares the LORD.
I have overthrown some of you , as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me, declares the LORD.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee , O Israel : and because I will do this unto thee , prepare to meet thy God, O Israel .
Therefore , that is what I will do to you , O Israel , and since I will do this to you , prepare to meet your God, O Israel !
For , lo , he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind , and declareth unto man what is his thought , that maketh the morning darkness , and treadeth upon the high places of the earth , The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
For behold , He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man , who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.

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