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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Seek the LORD, and ye shall 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As if a man did flee 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Though ye 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. |
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