| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear 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 now, that we may drink!" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness, "Behold, the days are coming upon you When they will take you away with meat hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"You will go out through breaches in the walls, Each one straight before her, And you will be cast to Harmon," declares the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known. For so you love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you While there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on another city I would not send rain; One part would be rained on, While the part not rained on would dry up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water, But would not be satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"I smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses, And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because 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 mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name. |
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