65 lines
2.2 KiB
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65 lines
2.2 KiB
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# Chapter 4
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1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria,
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Who oppress the poor,
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Who crush the needy,
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Who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”
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2 The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
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“Behold, the days shall come upon you
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When He will take you away with fishhooks,
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And your posterity with fishhooks.
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3 You will go out through broken walls,
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Each one straight ahead of her,
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And you will be cast into Harmon,”
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Says the Lord.
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4 “Come to Bethel and transgress,
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At Gilgal multiply transgression;
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Bring your sacrifices every morning,
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Your tithes every three days.
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5 Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
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Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings;
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For this you love,
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You children of Israel!”
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Says the Lord God.
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6 “Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
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And lack of bread in all your places;
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Yet you have not returned to Me,”
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Says the Lord.
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7 “I also withheld rain from you,
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When there were still three months to the harvest.
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I made it rain on one city,
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I withheld rain from another city.
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One part was rained upon,
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And where it did not rain the part withered.
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8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
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But they were not satisfied;
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Yet you have not returned to Me,”
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Says the Lord.
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9 “I blasted you with blight and mildew.
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When your gardens increased,
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Your vineyards,
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Your fig trees,
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And your olive trees,
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The locust devoured them;
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Yet you have not returned to Me,”
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Says the Lord.
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10 “I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt;
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Your young men I killed with a sword,
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Along with your captive horses;
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I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
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Yet you have not returned to Me,”
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Says the Lord.
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11 “I overthrew some of you,
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
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And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
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Yet you have not returned to Me,”
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Says the Lord.
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12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
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Because I will do this to you,
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Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
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13 For behold,
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He who forms mountains,
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And creates the wind,
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Who declares to man what his thought is,
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And makes the morning darkness,
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Who treads the high places of the earth—
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The Lord God of hosts is His name. |