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The Lord and King has made a promise
    by his own holy name.
He says, “You can be sure
    that the time will come
when your enemies will put hooks in your faces.
    They will lead every one of you away with fishhooks.
Each of you will go straight out
    through gaps made in the wall.
You will be thrown out toward Harmon,”
    announces the Lord.
“People of Samaria, go to Bethel and sin!
    Go to Gilgal! Sin there even more!
Bring your sacrifices every morning.
    Every third year, bring a tenth
    of everything you produce.

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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

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

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