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The Lord Will Punish the Women of Samaria

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria.

    You women oppress the poor and abuse the needy.
        You say to your husbands, “Get some wine! Let’s drink!”

Adonay Yahweh has taken an oath on his holiness:

    Surely, the time is going to come
    when you will be taken away on hooks,
        and the rest of you on fishhooks.
Each of you will leave the city
    through breaks in the wall, one woman ahead of another.
        You will be thrown into a garbage dump.

Yahweh declares this.

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Israel Has Not Returned to God

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan(A) on Mount Samaria,(B)
    you women who oppress the poor(C) and crush the needy(D)
    and say to your husbands,(E) “Bring us some drinks!(F)
The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(G) will surely come
when you will be taken away(H) with hooks,(I)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]
You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(J)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[b]
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets
  2. Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression