1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, "" Who [are] on the mountain of Samaria, "" Who are oppressing the poor, "" Who are bruising the needy, "" Who are saying to their lords: “Bring in, and we drink.”

2Lord YHWH has sworn by His holiness, "" “Behold, days are coming on you, "" And He has taken you away with hooks, "" And your posterity with fish-hooks.

3And [by] breaches you go forth, "" A woman before her, "" And you have cast down the high place,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

4“Enter Beth-El, and transgress, "" At Gilgal multiply transgression, "" And bring in your sacrifices every morning, "" Your tithes every third year.

5And burn a thank-offering with leaven as incense, "" And proclaim willing gifts, sound! For so you have loved, O sons of Israel,” "" A declaration of Lord YHWH.

6“And I also—I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, "" And lack of bread in all your places, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

7“And I also—I have withheld from you the rain, "" While yet three months to harvest, "" And I have sent rain on one city, "" And on another city I do not send rain, "" One portion is rained on, "" And the portion on which it does not rain withers.

8And two or three cities have wandered, "" To the same city to drink water, "" And they are not satisfied, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

9“I have struck you with blasting and with mildew, "" The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, "" And of your figs, and of your olives, "" The palmer-worm eats, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

10“I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, "" I have slain your choice ones by sword, "" With your captive horses, "" And I cause the stink of your camps to come up—Even into your nostrils, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

11“I have overturned among you, "" Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, "" And you are as a brand delivered from a burning, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.

12“Therefore, thus I do to you, O Israel, at last, "" Because this I do to you, "" Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”

13For behold, the Former of mountains, and Creator of wind, "" And the Declarer to man what [is] His thought, "" He is making dawn obscurity, "" And is treading on high places of earth, "" YHWH, God of Hosts, [is] His Name!