Amos 4:6 - Prayer Tents

Judgment on the Women of Israel

4"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"H8085H1697H6510H1316H2022H8111H6231H1800H7533H34H559H113H935H8354 2The Lord God has taken a sacred oath: "The day is coming when they will take you away on fishhooks, every last one of you on fishhooks.H136H3069H7650H6944H3117H935H5375H6793H319H1729H5518 3Each of you will go out through the breaches of the walls straight to Mt. Hermon," declares the Lord.H3318H6556H802H7993H2038H5002H3068

The Lord’s Rebuke to Israel

4"Come to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal and sin even more! Bring along your morning sacrifices, and pay your tithes every other day.H935H1008H6586H1537H7235H6586H935H2077H1242H4643H7969H3117 5While you're at it, present a thank offering with leaven, and publicize your freewill offerings, letting everyone hear about it, because this is what you really love to do, you Israelites," declares the Lord God.H6999H8426H2557H7121H8085H5071H3651H157H1121H3478H5002H136H3069

Israel’s Refusal to Return to God

6"I also have scheduled food shortages for you in all of your cities, and lack of bread in all of your settlements, but you haven't returned to me," declares the Lord.H5414H5356H8127H5892H2640H3899H4725H7725H5002H3068 7"I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.H4513H1653H7969H2320H7105H4305H259H5892H4305H259H5892H259H2513H4305H2513H4305H3001 8So the people of two or three cities staggered away to another city in order to obtain drinking water, but you have not returned to me," declares the Lord.H8147H7969H5892H5128H259H5892H8354H4325H7646H7725H5002H3068 9"I afflicted you with blight and fungus; and the locust swarm devoured the harvest of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees, but you have not returned to me," declares the Lord.H5221H7711H3420H1593H3754H8384H2132H7235H1501H398H7725H5002H3068 10"I sent plagues among you as I did with Egypt. I killed your choicest young men with the sword. I took your horses away from you. I filled your noses with the stench of your encampments, but you have not returned to me," declares the Lord.H7971H1698H1870H4714H970H2026H2719H7628H5483H889H4264H5927H639H7725H5002H3068 11"I overthrew your cities, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You've become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire, but you have not returned to me," declares the Lord.H2015H430H4114H5467H6017H181H5337H8316H7725H5002H3068 12"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I am about to do this, prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!"H6213H3478H6118H6213H3559H7125H430H3478 13"Look! The one who crafts mountains, who creates the wind, who reveals what he is thinking to mankind, who darkens the morning light, who tramples down the high places of the land?the Lord, the God of the Heavenly Armies is his name."H3335H2022H1254H7307H5046H120H7808H6213H7837H5890H1869H1116H776H3068H430H6635H8034