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Chapter 4 |
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1 | Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that
are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy,
which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. |
| 2 | The Lord GOD
hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he
will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. |
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And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and
ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. |
| 4 | Come to
Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your
sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: |
| 5 | And
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the
free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD. |
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD. |
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7 | And also I have withholden the rain from you, when
there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one
city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon,
and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. |
| 8 | So two or
three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not
satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| 9 | I have
smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and
your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| 10 | I have sent
among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain
with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of
your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD. |
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11 | I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| 12 | Therefore
thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee,
prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. |
| 13 | For, lo, he that formeth the
mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought,
that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. |
