Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

Shall not the day of LORD be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

For thus Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.