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"Yet You Have Not Returned to Me"

¹ Hear this word, you well-fed, pampered cows (women) of ^(C1)Bashan who are on the ^(C2)mountain of Samaria,
Who ^(C3)oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
Who say to their husbands, "Bring the wine now, and let us ^(C4)drink!" ^(VR1)

² The Lord GOD has ^(C1)sworn an oath by His ^(C2)holiness
That, "Behold, the days are coming upon you
When they shall take you away with ^(C3)meat hooks,
And the last of you with ^(C4)fish hooks. ^(VR1)

³ "And you shall ^(C1)go out through the breaches made in the city wall,
Every woman straight before her unable to turn aside,
And you shall be cast to ^(F1)Harmon,"
Says the LORD.

⁴ "Come to Bethel where the golden calf is and transgress;
In Gilgal where idols are worshiped multiply transgression;
^(C1)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days!

⁵ "^(F1)Offer by burning a ^(C1)sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
And boastfully proclaim ^(C2)freewill offerings, announce them.
For this you so ^(C3)love to do, O children of Israel!"
Says the Lord GOD.

⁶ "I also gave you ^(C1)cleanness of teeth because of the famine in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have ^(C2)not returned to Me in repentance," says the LORD.

⁷ "Furthermore, I ^(C1)withheld the rain from you
When there were still three months until the harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
And on ^(C2)another city I would not send rain;
One piece of ground was rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.

⁸ "So the people of two or three cities would stagger into one city to drink ^(C1)water,
But would ^(C2)not be satisfied;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me in repentance," says the LORD.

⁹ "I ^(C1)wounded you with blight from the hot, blasting east wind and with mildew;
And the ^(C2)caterpillar devoured
Your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me in repentance," says the LORD.

¹⁰ "I sent a ^(C1)plague among you like those of Egypt;
I ^(C2)killed your young men with the sword and I captured your ^(C3)horses,
I made the ^(C4)stench of your camp rise up into your nostrils;
Yet you have ^(C5)not returned to Me in repentance," says the LORD. ^(VR1)

¹¹ "I overthrew and destroyed some among you, as I, your ^(C1)God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were rescued like a ^(C2)log pulled out of the flame;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me in repentance," says the LORD. ^(VR1)

¹² "Therefore this is what I shall do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to ^(C1)meet your God in judgment, O Israel!"

¹³ For behold, He who ^(C1)forms the mountains and ^(C2)creates the wind
And ^(C3)declares to man what are His thoughts,
He who ^(C4)makes the dawn into darkness
And ^(C5)treads on the heights of the earth—
^(C6)The LORD God of hosts is His name. ^(VR1)