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\c 4
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\q1
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\v 1 You wealthy women of Samaria who have grown fat like the fat cows of the region of Bashan.
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\q2 You oppress poor people,
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\q2 and you cause needy people to suffer.
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\q1 And you say to your husbands,
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\q2 "Bring us more wine to drink!"
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\q1
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\v 2 But Yahweh our God has said this:
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\q2 "Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this:
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\q1 It will soon be the time when you all will be taken to another country;
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\q2 your enemies will take you away using sharp hooks to grab you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Your enemies will drag you out
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\q2 and you will go through breaks in your city walls,
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\q2 and they will force you to go toward Harmon.
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Go ahead: go to the hilltop places of idol worship that are at Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me;
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\q2 go and rebel more and more against me!
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\q1 Offer sacrifices on the morning after you arrive,
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\q2 and bring me a tenth of your crops the next day.
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\q1
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\v 5 Bring offerings of bread to thank me,
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\q2 and other offerings that are not required,
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\q1 and boast about these offerings that you bring,
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\q2 because that is what you like to do;
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\q1 but you do it to impress others, not to please me.
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\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 I am the one who caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns,
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\q2 but you rejected me in spite of that.
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\q1
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\v 7 When it was still three months before the time of harvesting crops,
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\q2 at the time when your crops needed rain the most,
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\q2 I prevented rain from falling.
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\q1 Sometimes I allowed rain to fall on some towns
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\q2 and prevented it from falling on other towns.
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\q1 Rain fell on some fields,
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\q2 but it did not fall on other fields,
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\q2 with the result that the soil in those fields where it did not rain dried up.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 Your people would stagger from one town to another town to find water,
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\q2 but they could not even get enough water to drink,
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\q2 but in spite of that, you have not returned to me.
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\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\q1
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\v 9 I caused your grain fields to dry up,
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\q2 and your gardens and vineyards to be struck and mildew.
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\q1 I sent locusts to eat the leaves on your fig trees and olive trees,
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\q2 but in spite of that, you rejected me.
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\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 I caused you to experience plagues
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\q2 like the plagues that I sent to the people of Egypt.
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\q1 I caused many of your young men to die in battles.
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\q2 and allowed your enemies to capture your horses.
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\q1 Many of your soldiers were killed,
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\q2 and your camps were filled with the smell of their corpses.
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\q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me.
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\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\q1
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\v 11 I got rid of many of you,
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\q2 like the people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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\q1 Those of you who did not die were like a burning stick that was snatched from a fire so that it would not burn completely.
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\q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me.
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\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 So now, you people of Israel, I am going to punish you.
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\q2 Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, when I judge you!
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\q1
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\v 13 I created the mountains,
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\q2 and the winds.
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\q1 I reveal to humans what I am thinking.
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\q2 and sometimes cause the daylight to become dark like the night.
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\q1 I rule over everything,
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\q2 and even walk on the highest mountains on the earth!
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\q2 I am Yahweh, commander of the angel armies!"
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