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“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,
who are on the mountain of Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
who are on the mountain of Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks.
that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks.
The Sovereign LORD has sworn this by his holiness:
“The time will come when you will be led away
with hooks in your noses.
Every last one of you will be dragged away
like a fish on a hook!
“The time will come when you will be led away
with hooks in your noses.
Every last one of you will be dragged away
like a fish on a hook!
And you shall go out through the breaches,
each one straight ahead;
and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
each one straight ahead;
and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
to Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
“Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel.
Keep on disobeying at Gilgal.
Offer sacrifices each morning,
and bring your tithes every three days.
Keep on disobeying at Gilgal.
Offer sacrifices each morning,
and bring your tithes every three days.
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
Present your bread made with yeast
as an offering of thanksgiving.
Then give your extra voluntary offerings
so you can brag about it everywhere!
This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do,”
says the Sovereign LORD.
as an offering of thanksgiving.
Then give your extra voluntary offerings
so you can brag about it everywhere!
This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do,”
says the Sovereign LORD.
Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord
“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in all your places,
yet you did not return to me,”
“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in all your places,
yet you did not return to me,”
“I brought hunger to every city
and famine to every town.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
and famine to every town.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
“I also withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
“I kept the rain from falling
when your crops needed it the most.
I sent rain on one town
but withheld it from another.
Rain fell on one field,
while another field withered away.
when your crops needed it the most.
I sent rain on one town
but withheld it from another.
Rain fell on one field,
while another field withered away.
so two or three cities would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,”
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,”
People staggered from town to town looking for water,
but there was never enough.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
but there was never enough.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
yet you did not return to me,”
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
yet you did not return to me,”
“I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew.
Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.
“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
“Therefore, I will bring upon you all the disasters I have announced.
Prepare to meet your God in judgment, you people of Israel!”
Prepare to meet your God in judgment, you people of Israel!”
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
and declares to man what is his thought,
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth —
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
and declares to man what is his thought,
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth —
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
For the LORD is the one who shaped the mountains,
stirs up the winds, and reveals his thoughts to mankind.
He turns the light of dawn into darkness
and treads on the heights of the earth.
The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies is his name!
stirs up the winds, and reveals his thoughts to mankind.
He turns the light of dawn into darkness
and treads on the heights of the earth.
The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies is his name!