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

⁷ “I also ^(J)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(K)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 ^(L)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(M)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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

^15 (A)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    ^(B)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
¹⁶     gather the people.
^(C)Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the elders;
^(D)gather the children,
    even nursing infants.
^(E)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.

^17 (F)Between the ^(G)vestibule and the ^(H)altar
    ^(I)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
    and make not your heritage a reproach,
    a byword among the nations.^[a]
(J)Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”

^14 (G)Consecrate a fast;
    ^(H)call a solemn assembly.
Gather ^(I)the elders
    and ^(J)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

¹⁵ Alas for the day!
^(K)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[a] it comes.
¹⁶ Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
^(L)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

^17 (M)The seed shrivels under the clods;^[b]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because ^(N)the grain has dried up.
¹⁸ How ^(O)the beasts groan!
    The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.^[c]

¹⁹ To you, ^(P)O Lord, I call.
^(Q)For fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness,
^(R)and flame has burned
    all the trees of the field.
²⁰ Even the beasts of the field ^(S)pant for you
    because the water brooks are dried up,
^(T)and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness.

^15 (A)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and ^(B)in their distress earnestly seek me.