Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Shomeron, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, that we may drink.

The Lord God has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, when you will be taken with hooks, and your remnant with fishhooks.

And you shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and you shall be cast away into Harmon, says the Lord.

Come to Bet-el, and transgress; to Gilgal and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three days:

and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim and publish the free will offerings: for this you like, O you children of Yisra᾽el says the Lord God.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, says the Lord.

And I too have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it did not rain, withered.

So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord.

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the cutting locust devoured them: yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord.

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Miżrayim: your young men I have slain with the sword, and I have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up to your nostrils: yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord.

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sedom and ῾Amora, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord.

Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Yisra᾽el: and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Yisra᾽el.

For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, the God of hosts, is his name.