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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.
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