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Listen to this word of judgment, you cows of Bashan, you rich, arrogant women who oppress the poor and say "Bring us another drink."

A day of punishment is coming when you will be taken away with hooks

You will go out in breaks in the wall and cast yourselves into Harmon

Go to Bethel and sin, and go to Gilgal and sin more

Go and give your offerings and then brag about them

Because of your sins I have sent famine and you have been hungry, and yet still you do not return to me

I sent rain on one city but sent drought on two others, and you didn't have enough to drink and the crops withered, and you still did not return to me

I struck your vineyards and gardens with mildew many times, and still you did not return to me

I struck your fig trees and olive trees with swarms of locusts, and still you did not return to me

I sent plagues among you, and still you did not return to me

I killed your young men in battle and carried away your horses and filled your camps with stench, and still you did not return to me

I overthrew some of you like I did to Sodom and Gomorrah

Some of you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire, and still you did not return to me

Since you won't return to me, then prepare to meet your God, Israel

Yahweh, the God of hosts, is the name of your God