Judgment on Israel’s elite

¹Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,

²The LORD God has solemnly promised by his holiness:

³You will go out through the broken wall,

A divine taunt

⁴Come to Bethel—and commit a crime;

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

⁵Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice of leavened bread,

Israel’s stubbornness

⁶I have sent a famine in all your cities,

⁷I also withheld rain from you

I allowed rain to fall on one city,

One field was rained on,

⁸So two or three thirsty towns went to one city to drink water, and weren’t satisfied;

⁹I struck you with disease and mildew.

The locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;

¹⁰I sent a plague against you like the one in Egypt.

I carried away your horses.

¹¹I destroyed some of you,

You were like a burning coal plucked out of the fire;

¹²Truly, Israel,

I will act in this way toward you;

¹³The one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,

makes the morning darkness,