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¹ You women of Samaria
    are fat cows!^[a]
You mistreat and abuse
    the poor and needy,
then you say to your husbands,
    "Bring us more drinks!"
² I, the Lord God, have sworn
by my own name
    that your time is coming.
Not one of you will be left—
you will be taken away
    by sharp hooks.^[b]
3 You will be dragged through holes
    in your city walls,
and you will be thrown
    toward Harmon.^[c]
I, the Lord, have spoken!

⁴ Come to Bethel and Gilgal.^[d]
    Sin all you want!
Offer sacrifices the next morning
and bring a tenth of your crops
    on the third day.^[e]
5 Bring offerings to show me
    how thankful you are.
Gladly bring more offerings
than I have demanded.
    You really love to do this.
I, the Lord God, have spoken!

⁶ I, the Lord, took away the food
from every town and village,
    but still you rejected me.
⁷ Three months before harvest,
    I kept back the rain.
Sometimes I would let it fall
    on one town or field
but not on another,
    and pastures dried up.
⁸ People from two or three towns
    would go to a town
that still had water,
    but it wasn't enough.
Even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

⁹ I dried up your grain fields;
your gardens and vineyards
    turned brown.
Locusts^[f] ate your fig trees
    and olive orchards,
but even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

¹⁰ I did terrible things to you,
    just as I did to Egypt—
I killed your young men in war;
    I let your horses be stolen,
and I made your camp stink
    with dead bodies.
Even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

¹¹ I destroyed many of you,
just as I did the cities
    of Sodom and Gomorrah.
You were a burning stick
    I rescued from the fire.
Even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

¹² Now, Israel, I myself
will deal with you.
    Get ready to face your God!

¹³ I created the mountains
    and the wind.
I let humans know
    what I am thinking.^[g]
I bring darkness at dawn
    and step over hills.
I am the Lord God All-Powerful!