Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: