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Amos

Chapter 04

1`` 'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`}
this word/'doctrinal communication' {dabar},
you cows of Bashan . . . on the hill of Samaria -
who defraud the poor . . .
who rob the needy . . .
who say to their lords/masters/husbands {'adown},
"Bring and let us carouse!"

2-3``My Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God swears by His holiness,
"Behold, days are coming upon you
when you will be carried off in baskets . . .
and to the last one, in fish baskets . . .
and taken out {of the city} 3``
each one through a breach straight ahead . . .
and flung on the refuse heap." said Jehovah/God.

{Sanctified Sarcasm}
4-5`` "Come to Bethel, and transgress.

To Gilgal and transgress even more.

Present your sacrifices the next morning,

and your tithes on the third day. 5``

Offer up also a thanksgiving offering from that which is leavened
  {anything that is profane or tainted - money, food, etc.},
and proclaim free will offerings loudly.

For you love that sort of thing." said Jehovah/God.

6`` "I, on My part, have give you:
cleanness of teeth in all your towns,
and lack of food in all your settlements.

Yet you did not turn back to Me," said Jehovah/God.

7-8`` "I {God} therefore withheld the rain from you
three months before harvest time.

I would make it rain on one town
and not on another.

One field would be rained upon
while another on which it did not rain
would wither. 8``

So two or three cities would wander
to a single town to drink water.

But their thirst would not be slacked.

Yet you did not return to Me," said Jehovah/God.

9`` "I scourged you with blight and mildew . . .
repeatedly . . . your gardens and vineyards . . .
your fig trees and your olive trees were devoured by locusts.

Yet you have not returned to me," said Jehovah/God.

10`` I sent against you pestilence
in the manner of Egypt.

I slew your young men with the sword . . .
together with your captured horses.

And I made the stench of your armies
rise in your very nostrils.

Yet you have not returned to me," said Jehovah/God.

11`` "I have brought destruction among you
as when 'Elohiym/Godhead destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

You have become like a brand plucked from burning.

Yet you have not returned to me," said Jehovah/God.

12-13`` "Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel
and because I will do this unto you,
prepare to meet your 'Elohiym/Godhead, O Israel. 13``

For, behold,
He Who formed the mountains . . .
and created the wind . . .
and declared unto man what is His plan/wish/thought . . .
Who turns blackness/darkness into daybreak . . .
and treads on the high places of the earth . . .
His Name is Jehovah/God . . .
'Elohiym/Godhead of the armies/hosts.