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1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan[#Ps 22.12; Ezek 39.18; Am 2.8; 3.9; 5.11; 6.1, 6; 8.6]
who are on Mount Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”
2The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:[#Ps 89.35; Isa 37.29; Ezek 29.4; 38.4; Am 6.8; 8.7]
The time is surely coming upon you
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks.
3Through breaches in the wall you shall leave,
each one straight ahead,
and you shall be flung out into Harmon, says the Lord .
4Come to Bethel—and transgress;[#Num 28.3, 4; Deut 14.28; Hos 4.15; Am 3.14; 5.5]
to Gilgal—and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
5bring a thank offering of leavened bread[#Lev 7.13; 22.18, 21; Hos 9.1, 10]
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel! says the Lord God .
6I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities[#Isa 3.1; Jer 5.3; 14.18; Hag 2.17]
and lack of bread in all your places;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .
7And I also withheld the rain from you
when there were still three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city
and send no rain on another city;
one field would be rained upon,
and the field on which it did not rain withered;
8so two or three towns wandered to one town[#Jer 3.7; 14.4; Ezek 4.16]
to drink water and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .
9I struck you with blight and mildew;[#Deut 28.22; Jer 3.10; Joel 1.4; 2.25; Hag 2.17]
I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .
10I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;[#Ex 9.3, 6; Deut 28.27, 60; Jer 11.22; 18.21; 48.15; Joel 2.20]
I killed your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;
and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .
11I overthrew some of you[#Isa 13.19; Jer 23.14; Zech 3.2]
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .
12Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;[#v 2 ; Ezek 13.5]
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,[#Ps 139.2; Jer 10.13; 13.16; Dan 2.28; Am 5.8, 27; Mic 1.3]
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord , the God of hosts, is his name!