“Yet You Have Not Returned to Me”

Hear this word, you cows of (A)Bashan who are on the (B)mountain of Samaria,
Who (C)oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
Who say to [a]your husbands, “Bring now, that we may (D)drink!”
The Lord [b]God has (E)sworn by His (F)holiness,
“Behold, the days are coming upon you
When [c]they will take you away with (G)meat hooks,
And the last of you with (H)fish hooks.
“You will (I)go out through breaches in the walls,
Each one straight before her,
And you [d]will be cast to Harmon,” declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:1 Lit their lords
  2. Amos 4:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  3. Amos 4:2 Lit he
  4. Amos 4:3 So Gr; M.T. reads will cast