Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Hear this word, O house of Israel ,
this
lamentation
I
take
up
against
you:
Hear ye
this word which
I
take
up
for
a
lamentation
over
you
, O house of Israel .
“Fallen
is
Virgin Israel ,
never
to
rise again.
She lies
abandoned
on
her land ,
with
no
one
to raise her up. ”
The
virgin of
Israel is
fallen;
she
shall
no
more
rise :
she is
cast
down
upon
her land ;
there
is
none
to raise her up.
This
is
what
the Lord GOD
says
: “
The city that marches
out
a thousand strong
will
only
see
a hundred return
, and the
one
that marches
out
a hundred strong
will
have but
ten left in
the house of Israel. ”
For
thus
saith
the Lord Jehovah
: The city that went
forth
a thousand shall
have
a hundred left
, and that which
went
forth
a hundred shall
have ten left ,
to
the house of Israel.
For this
is
what
the
LORD
says
to
the house of Israel :
“
Seek Me and live !
For thus
saith
Jehovah
unto
the house of Israel ,
Seek ye
me ,
and ye
shall
live ;
Do
not
seek Bethel
or
go
to
Gilgal ;
do
not journey
to Beersheba,
for Gilgal will
surely go into exile
, and Bethel
will
come to nothing
.
but
seek not
Beth-el,
nor
enter
into
Gilgal ,
and
pass
not to Beer-sheba:
for Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity
, and Beth-el
shall
come to nought
.
Seek the
LORD
and live ,
or
He will
sweep
like fire through
the house of Joseph ;
it will
devour everything
, with
no
one
at
Bethel
to extinguish
it.
Seek Jehovah,
and ye
shall
live ;
lest
he break
out
like fire in
the house of Joseph ,
and
it devour, and
there
be
none
to quench
it in
Beth-el
.
There
are
those
who turn justice into
wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Ye
who turn justice to
wormwood ,
and cast down
righteousness to the earth,
He
who
made
the Pleiades and Orion, who
turns
darkness
into dawn
and darkens
day into
night ,
who
summons
the waters of the sea and pours
them over
the face of the earth —
the
LORD
is His name —
`seek
him'
that
maketh
the Pleiades 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 (Jehovah
is his name );
He
flashes
destruction on
the strong, so that fury
comes
upon the stronghold
.
that
bringeth
sudden
destruction upon
the strong, so that destruction
cometh
upon the fortress
.
There
are
those
who
hate the
one
who
reproves
in the gate and despise
him who
speaks
with
integrity
.
They
hate him
that
reproveth
in the gate ,
and they
abhor
him that
speaketh
uprightly
.
Therefore ,
because
you
trample on
the poor and exact
from him a
tax
of grain,
you
will
never
live
in
the
stone
houses
you
have built; you
will
never
drink the wine from
the
lush
vineyards
you
have
planted
.
Forasmuch
therefore as
ye
trample upon
the poor ,
and take
exactions
from him 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 the wine thereof
.
For I know that
your transgressions are
many
and your sins are
numerous.
You
oppress
the righteous
by
taking
bribes;
you
deprive
the poor
of
justice
in the gate.
For I know how
manifold
are
your transgressions ,
and how
mighty
are
your sins -ye
that
afflict
the just,
that
take
a
bribe,
and
that
turn
aside
the needy
in the gate `from
their
right'
.
Therefore ,
the
prudent keep silent
in such times,
for the
days
are
evil.
Therefore he
that
is
prudent shall
keep silence
in such a
time;
for it
is
an
evil time
.
Seek good, not evil, so
that you
may live .
And the
LORD
, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you
have
claimed
.
Seek good, and
not evil, that ye
may live ;
and so
Jehovah
, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye
say
.
Hate evil and love good ;
establish justice in the gate .
Perhaps
the
LORD
, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to
the remnant of Joseph. ”
Hate the
evil ,
and love the
good ,
and
establish justice in the gate :
it
may
be
that
Jehovah
, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto
the remnant of Joseph.
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
, the God of Hosts, the Lord ,
says
: “There
will
be
wailing in all the public
squares
and cries
of
‘Alas!
Alas!’
in all the streets .
The farmer
will
be
summoned
to mourn
, and the
mourners
to wail
.
Therefore thus
saith
Jehovah
, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall
be
in all the broad
ways;
and they
shall
say
in all the streets ,
Alas!
Alas!
and
they
shall
call
the husbandman
to mourning
, and such
as
are
skilful
in
lamentation
to wailing
.
There
will
be
wailing
in all the
vineyards ,
for I will pass through your
midst, ”
says
the
LORD
.
And
in all vineyards shall
be
wailing;
for I will pass through the
midst of
thee
, saith
Jehovah
.
Woe to
you who
long
for
the Day of the
LORD
! What
will
the Day of the
LORD
be
for
you
? It will
be
darkness and not light.
Woe unto
you that
desire
the day of Jehovah
! Wherefore
would
ye
have
the day of Jehovah
? It is
darkness ,
and not light.
It
will
be
like
a man who
flees
from a lion, only
to
encounter
a bear ,
or who
enters
his
house and rests
his hand against
the wall, only
to
be
bitten
by
a snake
.
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
.
Will
not the Day of the
LORD
be darkness and not light ,
even gloom
with
no brightness in it?
Shall
not the day of Jehovah
be darkness ,
and not light ?
even very
dark,
and
no brightness in it?
“
I hate, I despise your feasts !
I cannot
stand
the
stench
of
your solemn assemblies.
I hate, I despise your feasts ,
and
I will
take
no
delight
in
your solemn assemblies.
Even
though you
offer Me burnt offerings and grain
offerings, I will not accept them; for
your
peace offerings of fattened
cattle
I
will
have
no
regard
.
Yea,
though ye
offer me your
burnt -
offerings and meal-
offerings, I will not accept them; neither
will
I
regard
the
peace -
offerings of your
fat
beasts
.
Take away from Me the noise of your
songs !
I will not listen
to
the music
of your
harps
.
Take thou
away from me the noise of thy
songs ;
for
I will not hear
the melody
of thy
viols
.
But let justice roll on
like
a
river
, and righteousness like
an
ever-flowing
stream.
But let justice roll down
as
waters
, and righteousness as
a
mighty
stream.
Did you
bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty
years
in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Did ye
bring unto
me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty
years
, O house of Israel?
You
have taken
along
Sakkuth
your king and Kaiwan
your star god, the
idols
you
made for
yourselves.
Yea,
ye
have borne
the
tabernacle
of
your king and the
shrine
of
your images,
the
star of
your
god, which
ye
made to
yourselves.
Therefore I
will send
you into exile
beyond Damascus, ”
says
the
LORD
, whose name is the God of Hosts.
Therefore will I
cause
you to
go
into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith
Jehovah
, whose name is the God of hosts.
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