1 Hear this word ye fat kine, which are in the mountains of Samaria: which do calumny to the needy, and break the poor: which say to your lords: Bring, and we will drink.
1 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.
2 Our Lord God hath sworn by his holy, that lo the days shall come upon you, and they shall lift you up on poles, and your remnant in pots boiling hot.
2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.
3 And by the breaches you shall go out one against another, & you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith our Lord.
3 And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other, and you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.
4 Come ye to Bethel, and do impiously: to Galgal, and multiply prevarication: and offer in the morning your victims, three days your tithes.
4 Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days.
5 And sacrifice ye praise of the leavened: and call voluntary oblations, & proclaim it: for so would you, o children of Israel, saith our Lord God.
5 And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6 Whereupon I have given you dullness of the teeth in all your cities, & lack of bread in all your places: and you have not returned to me, saith our Lord.
6 Whereupon I also have given you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.
7 I also have stayed the rain from you, when there remained yet three months unto harvest: and I rained upon one city, and upon another city I rained not: one part was rained upon, and the part whereupon I rained not, withered.
7 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 I rained not, withered.
8 And two and three cities came to one city to drink water, & were not filled: & you returned not to me, saith our Lord.
8 And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were not filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
9 I struck you with a burning wind, and with blasting, the multitude of your gardens, and all your vineyards: your olive groves, & fig-groves the eruke hath eaten: and you returned not to me, saith our Lord.
9 ¹I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
10 I sent death upon you in the way of Ægypt, I struck your young-men with the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the putrefaction of your camp to come up into your nostrils: and you returned not to me, saith our Lord.
10 I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men with the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the stench of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
11 Isubverted you, as God subverted Sodom and Gomorth, and you were made as a fire-brand hastily caught from the burning: & you returned not to me, saith our Lord.
11 I destroyed some of you, ²as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
12 Wherefore these things will I do to thee Israel: but after I shall do these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God o Israel.
12 Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I shall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 Because lo he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth, our Lord the God of hosts is his name.
13 For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.