4:1 "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!'
4:2 The
Lord
GOD
has
sworn
by
his
holiness
that,
behold,
the
days
are
coming
upon
you,
when
they
shall
take
you
away
with
hooks,
even
the
last
of
you
with
fishhooks.
4:3 And
you
shall
go
out
through
the
breaches,
each
one
straight
ahead;
and
you
shall
be
cast
out
into
Harmon,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:4 "Come
to
Bethel,
and
transgress;
to
Gilgal,
and
multiply
transgression;
bring
your
sacrifices
every
morning,
your
tithes
every
three
days;
4:5 offer
a
sacrifice
of
thanksgiving
of
that
which
is
leavened,
and
proclaim
freewill
offerings,
publish
them;
for
so
you
love
to
do,
O
people
of
Israel!"
declares
the
Lord
GOD.
4:6 "I
gave
you
cleanness
of
teeth
in
all
your
cities,
and
lack
of
bread
in
all
your
places,
yet
you
did
not
return
to
me,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:7 "I
also
withheld
the
rain
from
you
when
there
were
yet
three
months
to
the
harvest;
I
would
send
rain
on
one
city,
and
send
no
rain
on
another
city;
one
field
would
have
rain,
and
the
field
on
which
it
did
not
rain
would
wither;
4:8 so
two
or
three
cities
would
wander
to
another
city
to
drink
water,
and
would
not
be
satisfied;
yet
you
did
not
return
to
me,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:9 "I
struck
you
with
blight
and
mildew;
your
many
gardens
and
your
vineyards,
your
fig
trees
and
your
olive
trees
the
locust
devoured;
yet
you
did
not
return
to
me,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:10 "I
sent
among
you
a
pestilence
after
the
manner
of
Egypt;
I
killed
your
young
men
with
the
sword,
and
carried
away
your
horses,
and
I
made
the
stench
of
your
camp
go
up
into
your
nostrils;
yet
you
did
not
return
to
me,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:11 "I
overthrew
some
of
you,
as
when
God
overthrew
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
and
you
were
as
a
brand
plucked
out
of
the
burning;
yet
you
did
not
return
to
me,"
declares
the
LORD.
4:12 "Therefore
thus
I
will
do
to
you,
O
Israel;
because
I
will
do
this
to
you,
prepare
to
meet
your
God,
O
Israel!"
4:13 For
behold,
he
who
forms
the
mountains
and
creates
the
wind,
and
declares
to
man
what
is
his
thought,
who
makes
the
morning
darkness,
and
treads
on
the
heights
of
the
earth--
the
LORD,
the
God
of
hosts,
is
his
name!