Amos 4:4 (DRB)

Passage

Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days.

Nearby Context

Amos 4:2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.

Amos 4:3 And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other, and you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.

Amos 4:4 Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days.

Amos 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Amos 4:6 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "transgressions", "come", "bethel", "wickedly", "galgal", "multiply", "bring", and "morning". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "transgressions" and "come", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "And you shall go out at the..." into verse 5's "And offer a sacrifice of praise with...", so "transgressions" and "come" belong inside that flow. In Amos context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "transgressions" and "come" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.