Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
Hear
this word, O house of Israel ,
this
lamentation
I
take
up
against
you:
Listen
to
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 has
fallen;
She
shall
rise no
more
. She is
cast
down
on her land ;
There
is
no one 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
says
the Lord Yahweh
: "
The city that went
forth
a thousand shall
have
a hundred left
, And that which
went
forth
one
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
says Yahweh
to the house of Israel: "
Seek me ,
and you
will
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
don't
seek Bethel ,
Nor
enter
into
Gilgal ,
And
don't
pass
to Beersheba :
For Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity
, And Bethel shall
come to nothing.
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 Yahweh,
and you
will
live ;
Lest
he break
out
like fire in
the house of Joseph ,
And
it devour, and
there
be
no one to quench
it in
Bethel
.
There
are
those
who turn justice into
wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
You
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
who made the Pleiades and Orion, And
turns the
shadow
of
death
into the
morning,
And makes
the
day dark
with
night ;
Who calls
for
the waters of the sea ,
And pours them out
on
the surface
of the earth ,
Yahweh
is his name ,
He
flashes
destruction on the strong, so that fury
comes upon
the stronghold
.
Who
brings
sudden
destruction on the strong, So that destruction
comes on
the fortress
.
There
are
those
who
hate the
one
who reproves in the gate and despise
him who speaks with
integrity
.
They
hate him
who reproves in the gate ,
And they
abhor
him who speaks blamelessly
.
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
you trample on the poor ,
And take
taxes
from him of wheat:
You
have
built
houses
of
hewn
stone
, But
you will not
dwell
in them.
You have planted
pleasant
vineyards,
But
you shall
not
drink their
wine.
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
many your
offenses,
And how
great
are
your sins --
You who
afflict
the just,
Who
take
a
bribe,
And
who
turn
aside
the needy
in the courts
.
Therefore ,
the
prudent keep silent
in such times,
for the
days
are
evil.
Therefore he
who
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 you may live ;
And so
Yahweh
, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you 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 evil ,
love good ,
And
establish justice in the courts
. It
may
be
that
Yahweh
, the God of hosts, will be gracious to 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
says
Yahweh
, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing
will be in all the broad
ways;
And they
will
say
in all the streets ,
'Alas!
Alas!'
And
they
will
call
the farmer to mourning
, And those
who
are
skillful
in
lamentation
to wailing
.
There will be wailing in
all
the
vineyards,
for I will pass through your
midst, ”
says the
LORD
.
In
all
vineyards
there will be wailing ;
For I will pass through the
midst of
you
, "
says Yahweh
.
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 to you who desire
the day of Yahweh
! Why
do
you
long
for
the day of Yahweh
? 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 fled
from a lion, And
a bear met
him;
Or he
went
into
the
house and leaned
his hand on
the wall, And
a snake bit
him
.
Will not
the Day of the
LORD
be darkness and not light ,
even gloom
with
no brightness in it?
Will the day of Yahweh
not
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 can't
stand 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
.
Yes,
though you offer me your
burnt offerings and meal-
offerings, I will not accept them; Neither
will
I
regard
the
peace offerings of your
fat
animals
.
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like a
river
, and righteousness like an
ever-flowing
stream.
But let justice roll on like rivers
, And righteousness like a
mighty
stream.
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty
years
in the wilderness, O
house of Israel?
"
Did you bring to
me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty
years
, house of Israel?
You have taken
along
Sakkuth
your king and Kaiwan
your star god, the
idols
you made for yourselves.
Yes,
you have borne
the
tent
of
your king and the
shrine
of
your images,
the
star of
your
god, which
you made for 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, "
says Yahweh
, whose name is the God of hosts.
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