1. Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,you women who oppress the poor and crush the needyand say to your husbands, ‘Bring us some drinks!’
2. The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:‘The time will surely comewhen you will be taken away with hooks,the last of you with fishhooks.
3. You will each go straight outthrough breaches in the wall,and you will be cast out towards Harmon,’declares the Lord.
4. ‘Go to Bethel and sin;go to Gilgal and sin yet more.Bring your sacrifices every morning,your tithes every three years.
5. Burn leavened bread as a thank-offeringand brag about your freewill offerings –boast about them, you Israelites,for this is what you love to do,’declares the Sovereign Lord.