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`Amos
HaShem Judges Sin
~ 4 ~
“Yet You Have Not Returned to Me”
4:1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomron, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, "Bring, and let us drink."
4:2The Lord ADONAI has sworn by his
holiness that behold,
"The days shall come on you that
they will take you away with hooks,
And the last of you with fish hooks.
4:3You will go out at the breaks in
the wall,
Everyone straight before her;
And you will cast yourselves into
Harmon," says ADONAI.
4:4"Go to Beit-El, and sin;
To Gilgal, and sin more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days,
4:5Offer a
sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
And proclaim free will offerings and
brag about them:
For this pleases you, you children of
Yisra'el," says the Lord ADONAI.
4:6"I also have given you
cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in every town;
Yet you haven't returned to me,"
says ADONAI.
4:7"I also have withheld the
rain from you,
When there were yet three months to
the harvest;
And I caused it to rain on one city,
And caused it not to rain on another
city.
One place was rained on,
And the piece where it didn't rain
withered.
4:8So two or three cities staggered
to one city to drink water,
And were not satisfied:
Yet you haven't returned to me,"
says ADONAI.
4:9I struck you with blight and
mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;
And your fig trees and your olive
trees have the swarming
arbeh
devoured:
Yet you haven't returned to me,"
says ADONAI.
4:10I sent plagues among you like I
did Egypt.
I have slain your young men with the
sword,
And have carried away your horses;
And I filled your nostrils with the
stench of your camp
Yet you haven't returned to me,"
says ADONAI.
4:11"I have overthrown some of
you,
As when God overthrew Sedom and
`Amorah,
And you were like a burning stick
plucked out of the fire;
Yet you haven't returned to me,"
says ADONAI.
4:12"Therefore thus will I do to
you, Yisra'el;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to meet your God, Yisra'el.
4:13For, behold, he who forms the
mountains,
And creates the wind,
And declares to man what is his
thought;
Who makes the morning darkness,
And treads on the high places of the
Earth:
ADONAI, the God Tzva'ot,, is his name."
ANXIOUSLY WATCHING FOR MASHIACH’S RETURN,
SPEEDILY AND IN OUR DAY. MARANA, TA!