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    "book": "amos",
    "chapter": 4
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    "n": 4,
    "bookSlug": "amos",
    "bookCode": "AMO",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "AMO-4:1",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.1",
        "text": "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!”"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "AMO-4:2",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.2",
        "text": "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold,\n“The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks,\nand the last of you with fish hooks."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "AMO-4:3",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.3",
        "text": "You will go out at the breaks in the wall,\neveryone straight before her;\nand you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "AMO-4:4",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.4",
        "text": "“Go to Bethel, and sin;\nto Gilgal, and sin more.\nBring your sacrifices every morning,\nyour tithes every three days,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "AMO-4:5",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.5",
        "text": "offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,\nand proclaim free will offerings and brag about them:\nfor this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "AMO-4:6",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.6",
        "text": "“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,\nand lack of bread in every town;\nyet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "AMO-4:7",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.7",
        "text": "“I also have withheld the rain from you,\nwhen there were yet three months to the harvest;\nand I caused it to rain on one city,\nand caused it not to rain on another city.\nOne place was rained on,\nand the piece where it didn’t rain withered."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "AMO-4:8",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.8",
        "text": "So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,\nand were not satisfied:\nyet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "AMO-4:9",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.9",
        "text": "“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;\nand your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured:\nyet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "AMO-4:10",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.10",
        "text": "“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.\nI have slain your young men with the sword,\nand have carried away your horses;\nand I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,\nyet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "AMO-4:11",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.11",
        "text": "“I have overthrown some of you,\nas when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,\nand you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;\nyet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "AMO-4:12",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.12",
        "text": "“Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel;\nbecause I will do this to you,\nprepare to meet your God, Israel."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "AMO-4:13",
        "verseRef": "AMO.4.13",
        "text": "For, behold, he who forms the mountains,\nand creates the wind,\nand declares to man what is his thought;\nwho makes the morning darkness,\nand treads on the high places of the earth:\nYahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”"
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