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.
02 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that,
lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will
take you away with hooks, and your posterity with
fishhooks.
03 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow
at that which is before her; and ye shall cast
them into the palace, saith the Lord.
04 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal
multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices
every morning, and your tithes after three years:
05 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with
leaven, and proclaim and publish the free
offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of
Israel, saith the Lord God.
06 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth
in all your cities, and want of bread in all your
places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
the Lord.
07 And also I have withholden the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to the harvest:
and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused
it not to rain upon another city: one piece was
rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained
not withered.
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08 So two or three cities wandered unto one city,
to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
09 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew:
when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig
trees and your olive trees increased, the
palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the
manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with
the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I
have made the stink of your camps to come up unto
your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a
firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye
not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:
and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to
meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and
createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is
his thought, that maketh the morning darkness,
and treadeth upon the high places of the earth,
The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
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