1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink. 2The Lord Yehovah has sworn by his holiness, that, behold, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. 3And you shall go out at the breaches, each one straight before her; and you shall cast yourselves into Harmon, says Yehovah. 4Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; 5and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleases you, O you children of Israel, says the Lord Yehovah. 6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you have not returned to me, says Yehovah. 7And I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and did not cause it to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece on which it did not rain withered. 8So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says Yehovah. 9I have struck you with blight and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees the palmer-worm has devoured: yet you have not returned to me, says Yehovah. 10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men I have slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils: yet you have not returned to me, says Yehovah. 11I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says Yehovah. 12Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel. 13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth—Yehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.