1 Listento this word, youcows ofBashan,
who are on the mountain of Samaria, who
oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness,
“Behold, the days shall come on you
that they will take you away with
hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
everyone straight before her;
and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.

4 “Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days,

5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of
that which is leavened, and proclaim free
will offerings and brag about them; for
this pleases you, you children of
Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth
in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says
Yahweh.

7 “I also have withheld the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to
the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city,
and caused it not to rain on another
city. One field was rained on,
and the field where it didn’t rain withered.