4:1 Hear this word, you+ kine of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
4:2 The Sovereign Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, that, look, the days will come upon you+, that they will take you+ away with hooks, and your+ remainder with fishhooks.
4:3 And you+ will go out at the breaches, everyone straight before her; and you+ will be cast toward Harmon, says Yahweh.
4:4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and bring your+ sacrifices every morning, [and] your+ tithes every three days;
4:5 and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleases you+, O you+ sons of Israel, says the Sovereign Yahweh.
4:6 And I also have given you+ cleanness of teeth in all your+ cities, and want of bread in all your+ places; yet you+ have not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:7 And I also have withheld the rain from you+, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city: one piece was rained on, and the piece on which it did not rain withered.
4:8 So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you+ have not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:9 I have struck you+ with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your+ gardens and your+ vineyards and your+ fig trees and your+ olive trees has the palmer-worm devoured: yet you+ have not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:10 I have sent among you+ the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your+ young men I have slain with the sword, and have carried away your+ horses; and I have made the stench of your+ camp to come up even into your+ nostrils: yet you+ have not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:11 I have overthrown [cities] among you+, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you+ were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet you+ have not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:12 Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; [and] because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
4:13 For, look, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares what his thought is to man; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth--Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name.