Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Hear this word ,
O
house
of
Israel,
this
lamentation
I take up against you :
Hear ye
this word which
I take up against you ,
even
a
lamentation,
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
forsaken
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 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.
For this
is
what
the LORD says
to
the house of Israel :
“
Seek Me and live !
For thus
saith
the LORD 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
Bethel ,
nor
enter
into
Gilgal ,
and
pass
not to Beersheba :
for Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity
, and Bethel 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 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
.
There
are
those
who turn justice
into
wormwood and cast
righteousness to
the ground.
Ye
who turn judgment
to
wormwood ,
and leave
off
righteousness in
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 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 :
He
flashes
destruction
on
the strong, so that fury
comes
upon
the stronghold
.
That
strengtheneth
the spoiled
against
the
strong, so that the spoiled
shall
come
against
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
rebuketh
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
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
.
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 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
.
Therefore ,
the prudent keep silent
in such
times,
for the
days
are
evil.
Therefore the prudent shall
keep silence
in that
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
the LORD, the God of hosts, shall
be with you, as ye
have spoken
.
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 judgment
in the gate :
it
may
be
that
the LORD 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 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
.
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 thee
, saith
the LORD.
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 the LORD! to
what end
is
it
for
you?
the day of the LORD 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 the LORD 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 feast
days,
and
I will
not
smell
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
.
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
.
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 judgment
run
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?
Have
ye
offered
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.
But
ye
have borne
the
tabernacle
of
your Moloch
and Chiun
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
the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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