Punishment Brings No Repentance
Hear this word, Psa 22:12Amo 6:1Amo 5:11Ezk 39:18Ecc 4:11Ki 16:24Amo 2:6-8Amo 3:9-10
you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,
you women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
who say to your husbands,
“Bring us more to drink.”
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: Jer 16:16Psa 89:35Hab 1:15-16Amo 6:8Isa 37:29Ezk 39:4-5
“Behold, the days are coming
when you will be taken away with hooks,
and your posterity with fishhooks.
You will go out through broken walls, Ezk 12:5Ezk 12:12Isa 31:7Mat 16:262Ki 25:42Ki 7:152Ki 7:7-8Isa 2:20
each one straight ahead of her,
and you will be cast out toward Harmon, 1”
declares the LORD.
“Go to Bethel and transgress; Ezk 20:39Hos 4:15Num 28:3-4Amo 5:5Hos 12:11Hos 9:15Mat 23:32Amo 3:14
rebel even more at Gilgal!
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days. 2
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, Lev 22:18-21Psa 81:12Hos 9:10Hos 9:1Lev 7:12-13Mat 15:13-14Mat 23:23Mat 6:2
and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings.
For that is what you children of Israel love to do,”
declares the Lord GOD.
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth 3 Hag 2:17Jer 5:3Isa 9:13Rev 16:10-11Hos 5:15Lev 26:26Rev 2:211Ki 17:1
and all your towns with lack of bread,
yet you did not return to Me,”
declares the LORD.
“I also withheld the rain from you Exo 9:26Jer 3:32Ch 7:13-14Exo 10:23Exo 9:4Isa 5:61Ki 8:35-36Deu 11:17
when the harvest was three months away.
I sent rain on one city
but withheld it from another.
One field received rain;
another without rain withered.
People staggered from city to city Amo 4:61Ki 18:5Hag 1:6Amo 4:9-11Ezk 4:16-17Hos 7:10Isa 41:17-18Jer 14:3-4
for water to drink,
but they were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to Me,”
declares the LORD.
“I struck you with blight and mildew Deu 28:22Hag 2:17Jol 1:4Amo 4:6Amo 7:1-21Ki 8:372Ch 6:28Amo 4:8
in your growing gardens and vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig and olive trees,
yet you did not return to Me,”
declares the LORD.
“I sent plagues among you Deu 28:60Lev 26:252Ki 13:7Jol 2:20Deu 28:26-27Deu 7:15Exo 9:3-6Psa 78:49-50
like those of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
yet you did not return to Me,”
declares the LORD.
“Some of you I overthrew Isa 13:19Zec 3:2Gen 19:24-25Jer 23:142Pe 2:6Amo 4:6Ezk 22:17-22Jud 1:23
as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a firebrand 4snatched from a blaze,
yet you did not return to Me,”
declares the LORD.
“Therefore, that is what I will do 1Th 5:2-4Jas 4:1-10Amo 9:1-4Mrk 13:32-37Ezk 13:5Amo 5:4-15Isa 47:3Luk 21:3-36
to you, O Israel,
and since I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
For behold, He who forms the mountains, Amo 5:8Mic 1:3Amo 9:6Isa 47:4Psa 65:6Dan 2:28Deu 33:29Isa 40:12
who creates the wind
and reveals His thoughts to man,
who turns the dawn to darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth—
the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”