1:2 Listen, all you nations!
Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth!
The sovereign Lord will testify
the Lord will accuse you
1:9 For Samaria’s
It has infected
it has spread to
and has even contaminated Jerusalem!
2:11 If a lying windbag should come and say,
‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’
he would be just the right preacher for these people!
3:3 You
strip off their skin,
and crush their bones.
You chop them up like flesh in a pot
like meat in a kettle.
4:1 In the future
it will be more prominent than other hills.
People will stream to it.
4:5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods,
we will follow
6:2 Hear the Lord’s accusation, you mountains,
you enduring foundations of the earth!
For the Lord has a case against his people;
he has a dispute with Israel!
6:16 You implement the regulations of Omri,
and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty;
you follow their policies.
Therefore I will make you an appalling sight,
the city’s
and nations will mock all of you.”
7:14 Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod,
the flock that belongs to you,
the one that lives alone in a thicket,
in the midst of a pastureland.
Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead,
as they did in the old days.