2 The Almighty Lord has taken an oath on his holiness:Surely, the time is going to comewhen you will be taken away on hooks,and the rest of you on fishhooks.
3 Each of you will leave ⌊the city⌋through breaks in the wall, one woman ahead of another.You will be thrown into a garbage dump.The Lord declares this.
4 Go to Bethel and sin.Go to Gilgal and sin even more.Bring your sacrifices every morning.Bring a tenth of your income every three days.
5 Burn bread as a thank offering.Brag and boast about your freewill offerings.This is what you people of Israel love to do.The Almighty Lord declares this.
6 I left you with nothing to eat in any of your cities.I left you with no food in your entire land.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
7 I stopped the rain from fallingthree months before the harvest.I sent rain on one city and not on another.One field had rain.Another field had none and dried up.
8 So people from two or three cities staggeredas they walked to another city in order to get a drink of water.But they couldn’t get enough.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.