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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: “In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts. |
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