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chapter 5
1
Hear
ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of
Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.
2 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land,
there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which
came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which
there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
4 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek
ye me, and you shall live.
5 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither
shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel
shall be unprofitable.
6 Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph
be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench
Bethel.
7 You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake
justice in the land,
8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that
turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth
the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The
Lord is his name.
9 He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the
strong, and waste upon the mighty.
10 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and
have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
11 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the
choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not
dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink
the wine of them.
12 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your
grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in
the gate.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that
time, for it is an evil time.
14 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and
the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in
the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of
Joseph.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the
sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that
are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
17 And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because
I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
18 Woe to them 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 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and
a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon
the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not
light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I
will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
22 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I
will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I
will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
24 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice
as a mighty torrent.
25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the
desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and
the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
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