Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
- ASV
- Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
- DARBY
- Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:
- BLB
- Hear this word, O cows of Bashan who [are] on the mountain of Samaria, those oppressing the poor, those crushing the needy, those saying to their lords, “Bring in, and let us drink!”
- ÅB
- Hør dette ord, dere Basan-kyr på Samarias fjell, dere som undertrykker de ringe, som knuser de fattige, som sier til deres menn: Kom med vin, så vi får drikke!
- OTB
- Hør dette budskapet, dere velnærte kvinner i Basan som er på Samarias fjell,
Som undertrykker de fattige, som knuser de trengende,
Som sier til sine menn: “Kom med, så vi kan drikke!” - B1930
- Hør dette ord, I Basan-kyr på Samarias fjell, I som undertrykker de ringe, som knuser de fattige, som sier til eders menn: Kom med vin, så vi får drikke!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 22:12
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Read in contextAmos 6:1
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Read in contextAmos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Read in contextEzekiel 39:18
You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 4:1
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Read in contextZechariah 7:10–11
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Read in contextJeremiah 50:27
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:8
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
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