Amos 4

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1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria , which oppress the poor , which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 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. 3 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 . 4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years : 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven , and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God . 6 ¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought , that maketh the morning darkness , and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord , The God of hosts, is his name. Amos 6:1 . 2 Ne. 20:2 . Ps. 89:35 . OR broken places. Hosea 9:15 (13–15) . Deut. 14:28 ; D&C 119:4 (4–5) . HEB days. TG Thanksgiving . TG Leaven . Lev. 22:18 (18–21) . Jer. 52:6 . Hag. 2:17 ; Hel. 12:3 ; D&C 43:22 (22–30) . Jer. 3:3 . Isa. 3:25 ; D&C 45:33 . Isa. 13:19 . Gen. 19:24 . Zech. 3:2 . Mal. 4:1 ; Jude 1:23 . TG Jesus Christ, Creator . Ps. 139:2 ; Jacob 2:5 ; Alma 18:32 ; 3 Ne. 28:6 ; D&C 33:1 . Amos 5:8 . Amos 8:9 .