1 “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
2 The Lord God has sworn by his holinessthat, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.
3 And you shall go out through the breaches,each one straight ahead;and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”declares the Lord.
4 “Come to Bethel, and transgress;to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning,your tithes every three days;