Dual Panel1Listen to this word, you Bashan cows on the hill of Samaria, who oppress the helpless and grind down the poor, who say to your lords, “Bring us drink”:
2the Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that your time is coming when men will carry you away on shields and your children in fish-baskets.
3You will each be carried straight out through the breaches in the wall and thrown on a dunghill. This is the word of the LORD.
4Come to Bethel -- and infringe my law! Come to Gilgal -- and infringe it yet more! Bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes within three days.
5Burn your thank-offering without leaven; announce publicly your freewill-offerings; for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the word of the Lord GOD.
6It was I who brought starvation to all your towns, who spread famine through all your settlements; yet you did not come back to me. This is the word of the LORD.
7It was I who withheld the heavy showers from you while there were still three months to the harvest. I would send rain on one town and no rain on another; rain would fall on one field, another would be parched for lack of it.
8From this town and that, people would stagger to another for water to drink, but would not find enough; yet you did not come back to me. This is the word of the LORD.
9I struck you with black blight and red; I dried up your gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig trees and your olives; yet you did not come back to me. This is the word of the LORD.
10I sent plague among you like the plagues of Egypt; with the sword I slew your young men and your troops of horses. I made your camps stink in your nostrils; yet you did not come back to me. This is the word of the LORD.
11I brought destruction among you like the terrible destruction that befell Sodom and Gomorrah; you were like a brand snatched from the burning; yet you did not come back to me. This is the word of the LORD.
12Therefore, Israel, this is what I shall do to you; and, because this is what I shall do, Israel, prepare to meet your God.
13It is he who fashions the mountains, who creates the wind, and declares his thoughts to mankind; it is he who darkens the dawn with thick clouds and marches over the heights of the earth -- his name is the LORD, the God of Hosts.