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Amos 4

13 aligned verses; 13 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse YLT Young's Literal Translation BSB Berean Standard Bible
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan , Who `are' in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor , Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in , and we do 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.
Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness , That lo , days are coming upon you , And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks .
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 `by' breaches ye go forth , A woman `at that' over-against her, And ye have cast down the high place , An affirmation of Jehovah .
You will go out through broken walls , each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon , declares the LORD .
Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress , At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices , Every third year your tithes.
“Go to Bethel and transgress ; rebel even more at Gilgal ! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days .
And perfume with leaven a thank - offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah .
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 -- I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places , And ye have not turned back unto Me, an affirmation of Jehovah .
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 I also -- I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city , And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth .
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 .
And wandered have two or three cities, Unto the same city to drink water, And they are not satisfied , And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah .
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 with mildew , The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards , And of your figs, and of your olives, Eat doth the palmer-worm , And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah .
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 pestilence by the way of Egypt , I have slain by sword your choice ones , With your captive horses , And I cause the stink of your camps to come up -- even into your nostrils , And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah .
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 overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning , And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah .
“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 I do to thee , O Israel, at last, Because this I do to 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 , the former of mountains, and creator of wind , And the declarer to man what `is' His thought , He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on high places of earth , Jehovah , 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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