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¹ "Hear this word, ^(a)you cows of Bashan,
    who are ^(b)on the mountain of Samaria,
^(c)who oppress the poor, ^(d)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!'
^2 (e)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(f)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(g)even the last of you with fishhooks.
^3 (h)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,"
declares the Lord.

^4 (i)"Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(j)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(k)bring your ^(l)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(m)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ⁽ⁿ⁾freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(o)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!"
declares the Lord God.

⁶ "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and ^(p)lack of bread in all your places,
^(q)yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

⁷ "I also ^(r)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(s)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(t)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(u)yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

^9 (v)"I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(w)the locust devoured;
^(x)yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ "I sent among you a pestilence ^(y)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(z)carried away your horses,^[a]
    and ^(aa)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(ab)yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

¹¹ "I overthrew some of you,
    ^(ac)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(ad)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(ae)yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

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 For behold, ^(af)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(ag)declares to man what is his thought,
^(ah)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(ai)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(aj)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!