[1] Hear this word, you cattle of Bashan, that are in the mountain of
Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that tell their
lords, Bring, and let us drink. [2] The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his
holiness, that behold, the days shall come on you, that they shall take you
away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. [3] You shall go out at
the breaches, everyone straight before her; and you shall cast [yourselves]
into Harmon, says Yahweh. [4] Come to Bethel, and disobey; to Gilgal, [and]
multiply disobedience; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your
tithes every three days; [5] and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that
which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for
this pleases you, you children of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh. [6] I also
have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in
all your places; yet have you not returned to me, says Yahweh. [7] I also
have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the
harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on
another city: one piece was rained on, and the piece whereupon it didn`t
rain withered. [8] So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink
water, and were not satisfied: yet have you not returned to me, says
Yahweh. [9] I have struck you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of
your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees has
the swarming locust devoured: yet have you not returned to me, says Yahweh.
[10] I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your
young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses;
and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils:
yet have you not returned to me, says Yahweh. [11] I have overthrown
[cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were
as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me,
says Yahweh. [12] Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; [and] because I
will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. [13] For, behold, he
who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is
his thought; that makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places
of the Earth Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name.
