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Yet You Have Not Returned to Me

¹ Hear this word, you cows of ^(C1)Bashan who are on the ^(C2)mountain of Samaria,
Who ^(C3)oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
Who say to their ^(F1)husbands, "Bring now, that we may ^(C4)drink!"

² Lord Yahweh has ^(C1)sworn by His ^(C2)holiness that,
"Behold, the days are coming upon you,
And ^(F1)they will take you away with ^(C3)meat hooks,
And the last of you with ^(C4)fish hooks.

³ "And you will ^(C1)go out through breaches in the walls,
Each one straight before her,
And you ^(F1)will be cast to Harmon," declares Yahweh.

⁴ "Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!
^(C1)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days.

⁵ "^(F1)And offer a ^(C1)thank offering also from that which is leavened,
And call for ^(C2)freewill offerings; cause them to be heard about.
For so you ^(C3)love to do, you sons of Israel,"
Declares Lord Yahweh.

⁶ "But I gave you also ^(C1)cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have ^(C2)not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

⁷ "And I also ^(C1)withheld the rain from you
While there were still three months until harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
And on ^(C2)another city I would not send rain;
One portion would be rained on,
While the portion not rained on would dry up.

⁸ "So two or three cities would wander around to another city to drink ^(C1)water,
But would ^(C2)not be satisfied;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

⁹ "I ^(C1)struck you with scorching wind and mildew;
And the ^(C2)gnawing locust was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

¹⁰ "I sent a ^(C1)pestilence among you after the manner of Egypt;
I ^(C2)killed your choice men by the sword along with your ^(C3)captured horses,
And I made the ^(C4)stench of your camp rise up even in your nostrils;
Yet you have ^(C5)not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

¹¹ "I overthrew you as ^(C1)God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a ^(C2)firebrand ^(F1)delivered from a blaze;
Yet you have ^(C3)not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

¹² "Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to ^(C1)meet your God, O Israel."

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