59 lines
2.3 KiB
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59 lines
2.3 KiB
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# Chapter 4
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1 “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,
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who are on the mountain of Samaria,
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who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
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who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
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2 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
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that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
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when they shall take you away with hooks,
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even the last of you with fishhooks.
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3 And you shall go out through the breaches,
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each one straight ahead;
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and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
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declares the Lord.
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4 “Come to Bethel, and transgress;
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to Gilgal, and 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 of that which is leavened,
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and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
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for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
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declares the Lord God.
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6 “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 did not return to me,”
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declares the Lord.
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7 “I also withheld the rain from you
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when there were yet three months to the harvest;
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I would send rain on one city,
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and send no rain on another city;
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one field would have rain,
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and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
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8 so two or three cities would wander to another city
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to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
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yet you did not return to me,”
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declares the Lord.
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9 “I struck you with blight and mildew;
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your many gardens and your vineyards,
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your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
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yet you did not return to me,”
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declares the Lord.
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10 “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
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I killed your young men with the sword,
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and carried away your horses,
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and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
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yet you did not return to me,”
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declares the Lord.
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11 “I overthrew some of you,
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as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
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yet you did not return to me,”
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declares the Lord.
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12 “Therefore thus I will 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, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
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and declares to man what is his thought,
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who makes the morning darkness,
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and treads on the heights of the earth—
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the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name! |