Punishment Brings No Repentance 1 ULT Listen to this word, cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, the ones oppressing the poor, the ones crushing the needy, the ones saying to their masters,“Bring, and let us drink.” BSB BSB: Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
2 ULT The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you when he will lift you up with hooks, and the last of you with hooks of fishery. BSB BSB: The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 ULT And{ through} the breaches you will go out, a woman in front of her, and you will throw{ yourselves} out toward Harmon— the declaration of Yahweh. BSB BSB: You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
4 ULT Go to Bethel and transgress, to Gilgal and multiply to transgress, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes every three days. BSB BSB: “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
5 ULT And make a thank offering smoke from what is leavened, and call out freewill offerings; make{ people} hear! For thus you have loved, sons of Israel— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. BSB BSB: Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
7 ULT And also I, I withheld from you the rain with still three months to the harvest. And I made it rain on one city, and on one city I did not make it rain; one portion was rained on, and a portion which it did not rain on it dried up. BSB BSB: “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
8 ULT And two– three cities staggered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied, yet you did not return as far as me— the declaration of Yahweh. BSB BSB: People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
9 ULT I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured, yet you did not return as far as me— the declaration of Yahweh. BSB BSB: “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
10 ULT I sent among you a plague in the way of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the captivity of your horses, and I made the stench of your camp come up, and into your nostrils, yet you did not return as far as me— the declaration of Yahweh. BSB BSB: “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
11 ULT I overthrew among you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a burning, yet you did not return as far as me— the declaration of Yahweh. BSB BSB: “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
12 ULT Therefore, thus I will do to you, Israel; for the reason that I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel! BSB BSB: “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13 ULT For behold, the{ one} forming the mountains and creating the wind, and declaring to man what{ is} his thought, making dawn darkness, and treading on the high places of the earth— Yahweh, God of Armies,{ is} his name. BSB BSB: For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”