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Hear this word , ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria , who oppress the poor , who clash with the needy , who say to their lords , Bring , and we shall drink .
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The Lord Jehovih* has promised by His holiness , that, behold, the days are coming on you, and He will bear you away with hooks▵*, and your posterity with fishing hooks◦.
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And you shall go ··out through* the breaches , each◦ in··front··of her; and you shall cast down the palace ▫, says ◦ Jehovah .
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Come into Bethel , and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgressors; and bring your sacrifices every morning , your tithes for three days ;
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and burn··for··incense from what is leavened as a thanksgiving offering, and proclaim and make the freewill offerings heard ; for thus◦ you love to do, O ye sons of Israel , says ◦ the Lord Jehovih .
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And I◦ also have given to you emptiness* of teeth in all your cities , and want of bread in all your places ; and you have not returned to◦ Me, says ◦ Jehovah .
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And also I▵ have withheld the showers from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest ; and I caused it to rain on one city , and on one city I caused it not to rain ; one part of the field was rained on, and the part of the field, on which it rained not, dried ··up.
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And two three* cities wandered◦ to▵ one city , to drink water , but they were not satisfied ; and you have not even· returned ·to Me, says ◦ Jehovah .
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I have smitten you with scorching◦ and mildew ; much of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig ··trees and your olive ··trees, the palmerworm devoured ; and you have not returned even··to Me, says ◦ Jehovah .
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I have sent among you the pestilence in the way of Egypt ; your young··men I have killed with the sword , and have taken your horses captive; and I have made the stink of your camps to go··up and into your nose ; but you have not returned to◦ Me, says ◦ Jehovah .
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I have overturned some among◦ you, as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah , and you were as a firebrand rescued from burning··up; and you have not returned to◦ Me, says ◦ Jehovah .
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Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel ; because▵ I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God , O Israel .
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For, behold, He who forms the mountains , and creates the wind , and tells to man what his contemplation is, who makes the dawn upon the high ··places of the earth —Jehovah , the God of Armies , is His name .