1 Hear this word, ye Ps. 22:12;Ezek. 39:18kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, 1 Which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, 1 Which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 Ps. 89:35The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, 2 That lo, the days shall come upon you, 2 That he will take you away Jer. 16:16;Hab. 1:15with hooks, 2 And your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And Ezek. 12:5ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; 3 And [a]ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
4 Israel's failure to return to God
4 Ezek. 20:39Come to Beth-el, and transgress; 4 At Hos. 4:15Gilgal multiply transgression; 4 And Num. 28:3bring your sacrifices every morning, 4 Deut. 14:28And your tithes after [b]three years:
5 Lev. 7:13And [c]offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, 5 And proclaim and publish Lev. 22:18;Deut. 12:6the free offerings: 5 For [d]this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, 6 And want of bread in all your places: 6 Is. 26:11;Jer. 5:3;Hag. 2:17Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, 7 When there were yet three months to the harvest: 7 And I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: 7 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; 8 But they were not satisfied: 8 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 Deut. 28:22;Hag. 2:17I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: 9 [e]When your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, 9 Joel 1:4The palmerworm devoured them: 9 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence Ex. 9:3,6;Deut. 28:27;Ps. 78:50[f]after the manner of Egypt: 10 Your young men have I slain with the sword, 2 Ki. 13:7[g]and have taken away your horses; 10 And I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: 10 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Gen. 19:24;Is. 13:19Sodom and Gomorrah, 11 And ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: 11 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: 12 And because I will do this unto thee, 12 Ezek. 13:5Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the [h]wind, 13 Ps. 139:2;Dan. 2:28And declareth unto man what is his thought, 13 That maketh the morning darkness, 13 Mic. 1:3And treadeth upon the high places of the earth, 13 Is. 47:4;Jer. 10:16The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
