WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.040 Chapter 4. 00:01.820 --> 00:06.260 Hear this word, ye kind of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Sumeria, 00:06.620 --> 00:11.020 which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, 00:11.500 --> 00:12.940 Bring, and let us drink. 00:13.460 --> 00:18.960 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness that, Lo, the day shall come upon you, 00:19.040 --> 00:23.580 that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks, 00:23.880 --> 00:28.560 and ye shall go out at the breeches, every cow at that which is before her, 00:28.820 --> 00:32.300 and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord. 00:32.760 --> 00:34.900 Come to Bethel, and transgress. 00:35.420 --> 00:39.940 At Gilgal, multiply transgression, and bring your sacrifices every morning, 00:40.000 --> 00:45.260 and your tithes after three years, and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with 00:45.260 --> 00:48.340 leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings. 00:48.880 --> 00:53.340 For this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. 00:53.340 --> 00:58.300 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of 00:58.300 --> 01:03.220 bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 01:03.700 --> 01:08.420 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to 01:08.420 --> 01:13.160 the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon 01:13.160 --> 01:13.820 another city. 01:14.300 --> 01:18.680 One peace was rained upon, and the peace whereupon it rained not withered. 01:19.140 --> 01:23.880 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were not 01:23.880 --> 01:24.520 satisfied. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.220 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 01:28.780 --> 01:31.280 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. 01:31.700 --> 01:35.360 When your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees 01:35.360 --> 01:37.980 increased, the palmer worm devoured them. 01:38.360 --> 01:41.640 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 01:42.140 --> 01:45.240 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manor of Egypt. 01:45.780 --> 01:49.940 Your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses, 01:50.400 --> 01:54.360 and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils. 01:54.740 --> 01:57.860 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 01:58.480 --> 02:02.860 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, 02:03.280 --> 02:06.300 and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning. 02:06.740 --> 02:10.300 Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. 02:10.780 --> 02:13.960 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel. 02:14.440 --> 02:18.820 And because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 02:19.420 --> 02:24.460 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto 02:24.460 --> 02:29.380 man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the 02:29.380 --> 02:34.440 high places of the earth, the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name.