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Chapter
5
- 5:1
- Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation,
O house of Israel.
- 5:2
- The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she
is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
- 5:3
- For 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.
- 5:4
- For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live:
- 5:5
- But 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.
- 5:6
- Seek 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.
- 5:7
- Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness
in the earth,
- 5:8
- Seek 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:
- 5:9
- That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that
the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
- 5:10
- They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him
that speaketh uprightly.
- 5:11
- Forasmuch 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.
- 5:12
- 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.
- 5:13
- Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for
it is an evil time.
- 5:14
- Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD,
the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
- 5:15
- Hate 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.
- 5:16
- Therefore 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.
- 5:17
- And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through
thee, saith the LORD.
- 5:18
- Woe 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.
- 5:19
- As 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.
- 5:20
- Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?
even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- 5:21
- I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in
your solemn assemblies.
- 5:22
- Though 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.
- 5:23
- Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will
not hear the melody of thy viols.
- 5:24
- But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as
a mighty stream.
- 5:25
- Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?
- 5:26
- But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun
your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
- 5:27
- Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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