Hear this word, you heifers of Basanitis that are on the mountain of Samaria, you who oppress the poor and trample the needy, who say to their masters: Bring us something that we may drink.
The Lord swears by his holy ones: for behold, days are coming upon you when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery pestilences shall cast those with you into cauldrons heated from beneath.
You went into Baithel and acted lawlessly; at Galgala you multiplied impiety; and you brought your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day.
And I withheld the rain from you three months before the vintage; and I will rain upon one city, but upon another city I will not rain; one portion shall be rained upon, and the portion upon which I do not rain shall be dried up.
I struck you with scorching and with mildew; you multiplied your gardens, and the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig orchards and your olive orchards; yet not even so did you return to me, says the Lord.
I sent death among you on the way of Egypt, and I killed your young men with the sword, together with the captivity of your horses; and I brought your camps up in fire in my wrath; yet not even so did you return to me, says the Lord.
I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorra, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire; yet not even so did you return to me, says the Lord.
For behold, he who establishes thunder and creates wind, and declares his anointed to men, who makes the dawn and the mist and treads upon the heights of the earth: the Lord God the Almighty is his name.