“But you made the Nazirites drink wine,
And you commanded the prophets saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’

A lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,
But would not be satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“But do not resort to Bethel
And do not come to Gilgal,
Nor cross over to Beersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity
And Bethel will come to trouble.

“But let justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence.”

But the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

“People will stagger from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord,
But they will not find it.

“For behold, I am commanding,
And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations
As grain is shaken in a sieve,
But not a kernel will fall to the ground.