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| [1]Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, and destroy the needy, and they say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. |
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| [2]The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with thorns, and your posterity with fish hooks. |
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| [3]And ye shall go out at the breaches every cow forward: and ye shall cast yourselves out of the palace, saith the Lord. |
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| [4]Come to Beth-el, and transgress: to Gilgal, and multiply transgression, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, and your tithes after three years. |
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| [5]And offer a thanksgiving of leaven, publish and proclaim the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. |
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| [6]And therefore have I given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and scarceness 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 have not caused it to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered. |
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| [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. |
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| [9]I have smitten you with blasting, and mildew: your great gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees did the palmer worm devour: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. |
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| [10]Pestilence have I sent among you, 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 tents to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. |
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| [11]I have overthrown 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. |
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| [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. |
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| [13]For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought: which maketh the morning darkness, and walketh upon the high places of the earth, the Lord God of hosts is his name. |
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