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“Yet You Have Not Returned to Me”
1 Hear this word, you cows of APs 22:12; Ezek 39:18Bashan who are on the BAmos 3:9; 6:1mountain of Samaria,
Who CAmos 5:11; 8:6oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
Who say to 1Lit their lordsyour husbands, “Bring now, that we may DAmos 2:8; 6:6drink!”
2 The Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered Loʀᴅ, and so throughout the chGoᴅ has AAmos 6:8; 8:7sworn by His BPs 89:35holiness,
“Behold, the days are coming upon you
When 2Lit hethey will take you away with CIs 37:29; Ezek 38:4meat hooks,
And the last of you with DJer 16:16; Ezek 29:4; Hab 1:15fish hooks.
Each one straight before her,
And you 1So Gr; M.T. reads will castwill be cast to Harmon,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
4 “Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!
ANum 28:3; Amos 5:21, 22Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days.
And proclaim BLev 22:18-21freewill offerings, make them known.
For so you CJer 7:9, 10; Hos 9:1, 10love to do, you sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord Goᴅ.
6 “But I gave you also AIs 3:1; Jer 14:18cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have BIs 9:13; Jer 5:3; Hag 2:17not returned to Me,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
7 “Furthermore, I ADeut 11:17; 2 Chr 7:13; Is 5:6withheld the rain from you
While there were still three months until harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city
And on BEx 9:4, 26; 10:22, 23another city I would not send rain;
One part would be rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.
8 “So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink A1 Kin 18:5; Jer 14:4water,
But would BEzek 4:16, 17; Hag 1:6not be satisfied;
Yet you have CJer 3:7not returned to Me,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
And the BJoel 1:4, 7; Amos 7:1, 2caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have CJer 3:10not returned to Me,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
10 “I sent a AEx 9:3; Lev 26:25; Deut 28:27, 60; Ps 78:50plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
I BJer 11:22; 18:21; 48:15slew your young men by the sword along with your C2 Kin 13:3, 7captured horses,
And I made the DJoel 2:20stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have EIs 9:13not returned to Me,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
11 “I overthrew you, as AGen 19:24, 25; Deut 29:23; Is 13:19God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a BZech 3:2firebrand snatched from a blaze;
Yet you have CJer 23:14not returned to Me,” declares the Loʀᴅ.
12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to AIs 32:11; 64:2; Jer 5:22meet your God, O Israel.”
13 For behold, He who AJob 38:4-7; Ps 65:6; Is 40:12forms mountains and BPs 135:7; Jer 10:13creates the wind
And CDan 2:28, 30declares to man what are His thoughts,
He who DJer 13:16; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:8makes dawn into darkness
And EMic 1:3treads on the high places of the earth,
FIs 47:4; Jer 10:16; Amos 5:8, 27; 9:6The Loʀᴅ God of hosts is His name.
14:1 Lit their lords
14:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Loʀᴅ, and so throughout the ch
24:2 Lit he
D4:2 Jer 16:16; Ezek 29:4; Hab 1:15
14:3 So Gr; M.T. reads will cast
A4:4 Num 28:3; Amos 5:21, 22
14:5 Lit Offer up in smoke
B4:6 Is 9:13; Jer 5:3; Hag 2:17
A4:7 Deut 11:17; 2 Chr 7:13; Is 5:6
B4:8 Ezek 4:16, 17; Hag 1:6
A4:10 Ex 9:3; Lev 26:25; Deut 28:27, 60; Ps 78:50
C4:10 2 Kin 13:3, 7
A4:11 Gen 19:24, 25; Deut 29:23; Is 13:19
A4:12 Is 32:11; 64:2; Jer 5:22
A4:13 Job 38:4-7; Ps 65:6; Is 40:12
D4:13 Jer 13:16; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:8
F4:13 Is 47:4; Jer 10:16; Amos 5:8, 27; 9:6