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Listen to this, you cows of Bashan,
who are on the mountain of Samaria,
    you women who are oppressing the poor,
    who are crushing the needy,
    who say to your husbands, “Bring us more drinks!”
The Lord God swears by his holiness:
    The days are surely coming against you,
    when they will drag you away with hooks,
    every last one of you with fishhooks.
You will go out through the broken-down walls.
    Each woman will go straight ahead,
    and you will be thrown out[a] toward Harmon,[b]
    declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:3 In the Hebrew text the verb is active, you will throw. The translation follows the Greek text.
  2. Amos 4:3 The meaning of the word Harmon is uncertain. It may be a place name or mean something like garbage dump.