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1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she will no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand will leave a hundred, and that which went forth [by] a hundred will leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD [Yahweh] to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you will live:
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will come to nought.
6 Seek the LORD [Yahweh], and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.
7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 [Seek him] that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [Yahweh] [is] his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled will come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you will not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
13 Therefore the prudent will keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD [Yahweh], the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD [Yahweh] God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD [Yahweh], the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing [will be] in all streets; and they will say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they will call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards [will be] wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD [Yahweh].
18 Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD [Yahweh]! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [Yahweh] [is] darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 [Will] not the day of the LORD [Yahweh] [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD [Yahweh], whose name [is] The God of hosts.