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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 and say to your husbands, "Bring us some drinks!" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: "The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon," declares the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings-- boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do," declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth-- the LORD God Almighty is his name. |
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