Hear this Word that Jehovah has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he shall be all around the land; and he shall bring you down from your strength, and your palaces shall be plundered.

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

So I will do this to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

Hear this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.

So Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the Master, says this: Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the tiller to mourning, and those who are skillful in mourning to wailing.

Woe to those desiring the day of Jehovah! What is this for you? The day of Jehovah is darkness and not light;

The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass; even behold, the late grass after the king's mowings.

Jehovah repented for this; It shall not be, says Jehovah.

The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.

Jehovah repented for this; This also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

He made me see this: And behold, the Lord was standing by the plumbline-wall, and a plumbline in His hand.

So Jehovah says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.

The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, a basket of summer fruit!

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations on whom My name is called, says Jehovah who is doing this.