“Yet You Have Not Returned to Me”
Hear this word, you 1cows of aBashan who are on the bmountain of Samaria,Who cexploit the poor, who oppress the needy,2And say to their 3husbands, “Bring now, that we may ddrink!”I.e., haughty, prominent womenLit WhoLit lordsPs 22:12; Ezek 39:18Amos 3:9; 6:1Amos 5:11; 8:6Amos 2:8; 6:62 The Lord 1GOD has asworn by His bholiness,“For behold, the days are coming upon youWhen 2they will take you away with cmeat hooks,And the last of you with dfish hooks.Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the chLit heAmos 6:8; 8:7Ps 89:35Is 37:29; Ezek 38:4Jer 16:16; Ezek 29:4; Hab 1:153 “You will ago out through holes in the walls,One in front of the other,And you 1will be hurled to Harmon,” declares the LORD.As in LXX; MT will hurlJer 52:7
4 “Enter Bethel and do wrong;In Gilgal multiply wrongdoing!aBring your sacrifices every morning,Your tithes every three days.Num 28:3; Amos 5:21, 225 “1Offer a athanksgiving offering also from that which is leavened,And proclaim b2voluntary offerings, make them known.For so you clove to do, you sons of Israel,”Declares the Lord GOD.Lit Offer up in smokeOr freewill offeringsLev 7:13Lev 22:18-21Jer 7:9, 10; Hos 9:1, 10
6 “But I gave you also acleanness of teeth in all your cities,And lack of bread in all your places;Yet you have bnot returned to Me,” declares the LORD.Is 3:1; Jer 14:18Is 9:13; Jer 5:3; Hag 2:177 “Furthermore, I awithheld the rain from youWhile there were still three months until harvest.Then I would send rain on one city,But on banother city I would not send rain;One part would be rained on,While the part not rained on would dry up.Deut 11:17; 2 Chr 7:13; Is 5:6Ex 9:4, 26; 10:22, 238 “So the people of two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink awater,But would bnot be satisfied;Yet you have cnot returned to Me,” declares the LORD.1 Kin 18:5; Jer 14:4Ezek 4:16, 17; Hag 1:6Jer 3:79 “I astruck you with scorching wind and mildew;The bcaterpillar was devouringYour many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;Yet you have cnot returned to Me,” declares the LORD.Deut 28:22; Hag 2:17Joel 1:4, 7; Amos 7:1, 2Jer 3:1010 “I sent a aplague among you 1as in Egypt;I bkilled your young men with the sword, along with your ccaptured horses,And I made the dstench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;Yet you have enot returned to Me,” declares the LORD.Lit in the way of EgyptEx 9:3; Lev 26:25; Deut 28:27, 60; Ps 78:50Jer 11:22; 18:21; 48:152 Kin 13:3, 7Joel 2:20Is 9:1311 “I overthrew you, as aGod overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,And you were like a blog snatched from a fire;Yet you have cnot returned to Me,” declares the LORD.Gen 19:24, 25; Deut 29:23; Is 13:19Zech 3:2Jer 23:1412 “Therefore so I will do to you, Israel;Because I will do this to you,Prepare to ameet your God, Israel.”Is 32:11; 64:2; Jer 5:2213 For behold, He who aforms mountains and bcreates the wind,And cdeclares to a person what are His thoughts,He who dmakes dawn into darknessAnd etreads on the high places of the earth,fThe LORD God of armies is His name.Job 38:4-7; Ps 65:6; Is 40:12Ps 135:7; Jer 10:13Dan 2:28, 30Jer 13:16; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:8Mic 1:3Is 47:4; Jer 10:16; Amos 5:8, 27; 9:6