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1 Hear this word, you 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.
2 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days will come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And you will go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and you will cast [them] into the palace, says the LORD [Yahweh].
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this likes you, O you children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
6 And 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 the LORD [Yahweh].
7 And also I have withheld 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 to not rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece on which it did not rain withered.
8 So two [or] three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD [Yahweh].
9 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 you have not returned to me, says the LORD [Yahweh].
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men I have slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD [Yahweh].
11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD [Yahweh].
12 Therefore I will do thus to you, O Israel: [and] because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
13 Look at Him that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what [is] his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD [Yahweh], The God of hosts, [is] his name.