1 撒玛利亚山上的巴珊母牛啊！ 要听这话； 你们欺负贫穷人， 压迫穷苦人， 又对自己的丈夫说： "拿酒来， 给我们饮用。"

2 主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓： "看哪！ 对付你们的日子快到， 人必用钩子把你们钩走， 最后一个也必被人用鱼钩钩去。

3 你们一个一个经过城墙的破口出去， 被丢弃在哈门。"这是耶和华的宣告。

4 "你们去伯特利犯罪， 在吉甲增加过犯吧！ 每早献上你们的祭物， 每三日献上你们的十分之一吧！

5 以色列人哪！ 把有酵的饼作感谢祭献上， 高声宣扬你们自愿献的祭吧！ 这原是你们喜爱行的。"这是主耶和华的宣告。

6 "虽然我使你们各城的人牙齿干净， 各处都缺乏粮食； 但你们仍不归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。

7 "我曾在收割前三个月， 不降雨给你们； 我降雨给一个城， 在另一个城却不降雨； 我在一块地降雨， 另一块地没有雨水就枯干了。

8 两三个城的居民挤到一个城去找水喝， 却没有足够的水喝； 但你们仍不归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。

9 "我曾多次用热风和霉烂击打你们的园子和葡萄园， 叫蝗虫吃光你们的无花果树和橄榄树； 但你们仍不归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。

10 "我在你们中间降下瘟疫， 正如临到埃及的瘟疫一样； 我用刀杀掉你们的年轻人， 你们被掳去的马匹也遭杀戮； 我使你们营里死尸的臭气扑鼻， 但你们仍不归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。

11 "我倾覆你们， 就像倾覆所多玛和蛾摩拉一样； 你们像一根木柴， 从火里抽出来； 但你们仍不归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。

12 "因此， 以色列啊！ 我必这样对付你。以色列啊！ 因我必这样对付你， 你应当预备迎见你的 神。"

13 看哪！ 他造了山， 创造了风， 把他的心意告诉人； 他造了晨光和黑暗， 他的脚踏在地的高处， 耶和华万军的 神就是他的名。

1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah.

4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; 5 and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 11 I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the Earth— Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.