1Hear this word, you kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2Adonai Yahuah (The Lord GOD) has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3And you shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and you shall cast them into the palace, says Yahuah (LORD).
4Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O you children of Yashar'el (Israel), says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD).
6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
7And also I have withholden 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 rained not withered.
8So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not returned unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have you not returned unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have you not returned unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
11I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim (God) overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned unto me, says Yahuah (LORD).
12Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Yashar'el (Israel): and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your Elohim (God), O Yashar'el (Israel).
13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, Yahuah (LORD), The Elohim (God) of hosts, is his name.