¹ Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!” ² The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness,
“Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, ³ You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
everyone straight before her; ⁴ “Go to Bethel, and sin;
Bring your sacrifices every morning, ⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, ⁶ “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, ⁷ “I also have withheld the rain from you, ⁸ So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, ⁹ “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, ¹⁰ “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. ¹¹ “I have overthrown some of you, ¹² “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; ¹³ For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought,