1. “Listen to this, you cows of Bashangrazing on the slopes of Samaria.You women! Mean to the poor,cruel to the down-and-out!Indolent and pampered, you demand of your husbands,‘Bring us a tall, cool drink!’
6. “You know, don’t you, that I’m the Onewho emptied your pantries and cleaned out your cupboards,Who left you hungry and standing in bread lines?But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me.”God’s Decree.
9. “I hit your crops with diseaseand withered your orchards and gardens.Locusts devoured your olive and fig trees,but you continued to ignore me.”God’s Decree.
10. “I revisited you with the old Egyptian plagues,killed your choice young men and prize horses.The stink of rot in your camps was so strongthat you held your noses—But you didn’t notice me.You continued to ignore me.”God’s Decree.
11. “I hit you with earthquake and fire,left you devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah.You were like a burning sticksnatched from the flames.But you never looked my way.You continued to ignore me.”God’s Decree.