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Amos 4:1-3

Luxury Built on Oppression

Yet You Did Not Return · Amos 4

Story guide: The oracle's animal language is a rebuke, not a literal transformation. The departing road recalls the warning of removal.

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1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, “Bring, that we may drink.”

2The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness: For behold, days are coming upon you when they will lift you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

3And through the breaches you will go out, each woman straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares Yahweh.

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