4 “Hear this word, ^(A)you cows of Bashan,
    who are ^(B)on the mountain of Samaria,
^(C)who oppress the poor, ^(D)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
^2 (E)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(F)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(G)even the last of you with fishhooks.
^3 (H)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
declares the Lord.

^4 (I)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(J)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(K)bring your ^(L)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(M)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ^(N)freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(O)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.

⁷ “I also ^(R)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(S)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;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(T)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(U)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

^9 (V)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(W)the locust devoured;
^(X)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence ^(Y)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(Z)carried away your horses,^[a]
    and ^(AA)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(AB)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(AC)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(AD)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(AE)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For behold, ^(AF)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(AG)declares to man what is his thought,
^(AH)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(AI)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(AJ)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

⁵ If ^(E)thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If ^(F)grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
^6 (G)How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures sought out!
⁷ All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    ^(H)those who eat your bread^[c] have set a trap beneath you—
    ^(I)you have^[d] no understanding.

^8 (J)Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
    destroy the wise men out of Edom,
    and understanding out of ^(K)Mount Esau?
⁹ And your mighty men shall be dismayed, ^(L)O Teman,
    so that every man from ^(M)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.