Basic HTML Version
ground.
15
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall
perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the L
ORD
.
CHAPTER 4
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that
are
in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor,
which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2
The Lord GOD hath
sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks,
and your posterity with fishhooks.
3
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every
cow at that which
is
before her; and ye shall cast
them
into the palace, saith the L
ORD
.
4
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices
every morning,
and
your tithes after three years:
5
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
and proclaim
and
publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the
Lord GOD.
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 the L
ORD
.
7
And also I 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; but they were
not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the L
ORD
.
9
I have smitten you with blasting
and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased,
the palmerworm devoured
them:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the L
ORD
.
10
I have sent
among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword,
and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the L
ORD
.
11
I have overthrown
some
of you, as
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the L
ORD
.
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, The L
ORD
, The God of hosts,
is
his name.
CHAPTER 5
Hear ye this word which I take up against you,
even
a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2
The virgin
of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land;
there is
none to raise her
1020
KJV Bible