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The Sovereign Lord has sworn this by his holiness:
“The time will come when you will be led away
    with hooks in your noses.
Every last one of you will be dragged away
    like a fish on a hook!
You will be led out through the ruins of the wall;
    you will be thrown from your fortresses,[a]
    says the Lord.

“Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel.
    Keep on disobeying at Gilgal.
Offer sacrifices each morning,
    and bring your tithes every three days.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 Or thrown out toward Harmon, possibly a reference to Mount Hermon.

The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]
You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(D)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[b]
declares the Lord.
“Go to Bethel(E) and sin;
    go to Gilgal(F) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(G)
    your tithes(H) every three years.[c](I)

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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
  3. Amos 4:4 Or days