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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.” |
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