4:1 Hear
this
word,
ye
kine
of
Bashan,
Who
[are]
in
the
mountain
of
Samaria,
Who
are
oppressing
the
poor,
Who
are
bruising
the
needy,
Who
are
saying
to
their
lords:
`Bring
in,
and
we
do
drink.'
4:2 Sworn
hath
the
Lord
Jehovah
by
His
holiness,
That
lo,
days
are
coming
upon
you,
And
he
hath
taken
you
away
with
hooks,
And
your
posterity
with
fish-hooks.
4:3 And
[by]
breaches
ye
go
forth,
A
woman
[at
that]
over-against
her,
And
ye
have
cast
down
the
high
place,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:4 Enter
ye
Beth-El,
and
transgress,
At
Gilgal
multiply
transgression,
And
bring
in
every
morning
your
sacrifices,
Every
third
year
your
tithes.
4:5 And
perfume
with
leaven
a
thank-offering,
And
proclaim
willing
gifts,
sound
ye!
For
so
ye
have
loved,
O
sons
of
Israel,
An
affirmation
of
the
Lord
Jehovah.
4:6 And
I
also--I
have
given
to
you
cleanness
of
teeth
in
all
your
cities,
And
lack
of
bread
in
all
your
places,
And
ye
have
not
turned
back
unto
Me,
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:7 And
I
also--I
have
withheld
from
you
the
rain.
While
yet
three
months
to
harvest,
And
I
have
sent
rain
on
one
city,
And
on
another
city
I
do
not
send
rain,
One
portion
is
rained
on,
And
the
portion
on
which
it
raineth
not
withereth.
4:8 And
wandered
have
two
or
three
cities,
Unto
the
same
city
to
drink
water,
And
they
are
not
satisfied,
And
ye
have
not
turned
back
unto
Me,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:9 I
have
smitten
you
with
blasting
and
with
mildew,
The
abundance
of
your
gardens
and
of
your
vineyards,
And
of
your
figs,
and
of
your
olives,
Eat
doth
the
palmer-worm,
And
ye
have
not
turned
back
unto
Me,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:10 I
have
sent
among
you
pestilence
by
the
way
of
Egypt,
I
have
slain
by
sword
your
choice
ones,
With
your
captive
horses,
And
I
cause
the
stink
of
your
camps
to
come
up--even
into
your
nostrils,
And
ye
have
not
turned
back
unto
Me,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:11 I
have
overturned
among
you,
Like
the
overturn
by
God
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
And
ye
are
as
a
brand
delivered
from
a
burning,
And
ye
have
not
turned
back
unto
Me,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
4:12 Therefore,
thus
I
do
to
thee,
O
Israel,
at
last,
Because
this
I
do
to
thee,
Prepare
to
meet
thy
God,
O
Israel.
4:13 For,
lo,
the
former
of
mountains,
and
creator
of
wind,
And
the
declarer
to
man
what
[is]
His
thought,
He
is
making
dawn
obscurity,
And
is
treading
on
high
places
of
earth,
Jehovah,
God
of
Hosts,
[is]
His
name!