1 Hoor hierdie woord, koeie van Basan, wat op die gebergte van Samar¡a is! Wat die armes verdruk, die behoeftiges hard behandel; wat aan hulle here sê: Bring aan en laat ons drink!

2 Die Here HERE het gesweer by sy heiligheid: Kyk, daar sal dae oor julle kom dat hulle julle met hake sal optrek en die wat van julle oor is, met vishoeke.

3 En julle sal deur bresse in die muur uittrek, elkeen sonder om weg te kyk, en julle sal weggewerp word na Harmon, spreek die Here HERE.

4 Kom na Bet-el, en sondig! Na Gilgal, sondig nog meer! En bring julle slagoffers in die môre en julle tiendes al om die derde dag.

5 En laat van wat gesuurd is, 'n lofoffer rook, en roep vrywillige offers uit, laat dit hoor! Want so is dit na julle sin, kinders van Israel, spreek die Here HERE.

6 Alhoewel k julle reinheid van tande gegee het in al julle stede en broodsgebrek in al julle woonplekke -- nogtans het julle jul tot My nie bekeer nie, spreek die HERE.

7 Alhoewel k die reën van julle teruggehou het toe dit nog drie maande voor die oestyd was en op die een stad laat reën maar op die ander nie laat reën het nie, die een stuk land reën gekry het, maar die ander waarop geen reën geval het nie, verdor het;

8 en twee, drie stede na een stad geslinger het om water te drink sonder om die dors te les -- nogtans het julle jul tot My nie bekeer nie, spreek die HERE.

9 Ek het julle met brandkoring en met heuningdou swaar getref, baie van julle tuine en julle wingerde en julle vyebome en julle olyfbome het die sprinkaan verslind -- nogtans het julle jul tot My nie bekeer nie, spreek die HERE.

10 Ek het die pes onder julle gestuur, op die manier van Egipte; Ek het julle jongmanne met die swaard gedood saam met die wegvoering van julle perde; en Ek het die stank van julle laer laat opstyg, ja, tot in julle neus -- nogtans het julle jul tot My nie bekeer nie, spreek die HERE.

11 Ek het julle omgekeer soos God Sodom en Gomorra omgekeer het, sodat julle soos 'n stuk brandhout was wat uit die vuur geruk is -- nogtans het julle jul tot My nie bekeer nie, spreek die HERE.

12 Daarom sal Ek so met jou handel, o Israel; omdat Ek so met jou sal handel -- maak jou klaar om jou God te ontmoet, o Israel!

13 Want kyk, Hy wat die berge formeer en die wind skep en aan die mens sy gedagte bekend maak, wat die dageraad duisternis maak, wat op die hoogtes van die aarde wandel, HERE, God van die leërskare, is sy Naam!

1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

5 Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

6 But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.

13 For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.