Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Hear this word, O house of Israel ,
this
lamentation
I
take
up
against
you
:
Hear this word that
I
am
bearing
to
you
, 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. ”
`
Fallen, not
again
to rise ,
hath
the
virgin
of
Israel,
Left
on her land --
she
hath
no raiser
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
said
the Lord Jehovah
: The city that is
going
out a thousand ,
Doth
leave
an
hundred, And that which
is
going
out an
hundred ,
Doth
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
said
Jehovah
to the house of Israel: Seek ye
Me ,
and 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
.
And
seek not
Beth-El,
and
Gilgal enter
not, And
Beer-Sheba
pass
not
through,
For Gilgal doth
utterly
remove
, And Beth-El
doth
become
vanity
.
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 ye
Jehovah,
and live, Lest
He prosper
as
fire `against'
the house of Joseph ,
And
it hath
consumed
, And
there
is
no quencher
for
Beth-El
.
There
are
those
who turn
justice
into
wormwood and cast
righteousness to the ground.
Ye
who are
turning
to
wormwood judgment,
And righteousness to the earth
have
put
down,
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 —
The maker
of
Kimah
and Kesil
, And the
turner
to
morning
of
death-shade,
And
day `as'
night He
hath
made
dark
, Who is
calling
to
the waters of the sea ,
And poureth
them on
the face of the earth ,
Jehovah
`
is '
His name ;
He
flashes
destruction
on
the strong, so
that
fury
comes
upon
the stronghold
.
Who
is
brightening
up
the spoiled
against
the
strong, And
the spoiled
against
a
fortress
cometh
.
There
are
those
who
hate
the
one
who
reproves
in the gate and despise
him
who
speaks
with
integrity
.
They
have
hated
a
reprover
in the gate ,
And a
plain
speaker
they
abominate
.
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.
Therefore, because of
your
trampling
on the poor ,
And the
tribute
of
corn
ye
take
from him, Houses of
hewn
work
ye
have built ,
And
ye
do
not
dwell
in
them,
Desirable
vineyards ye
have planted ,
And
ye
do
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 have
known
--
many
`are'
your transgressions ,
And mighty
your sins ,
Adversaries
of
the righteous ,
taking ransoms,
And
the needy
in the gate ye
turned
aside
.
Therefore ,
the prudent
keep
silent in
such
times
, for the
days
are
evil.
Therefore is
the wise
at
that
time
silent, For an
evil time
it
`is'
.
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 it
is
so;
Jehovah
, God of Hosts, `is'
with you, as ye
said
.
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 ,
and love good ,
And
set
up
judgment
in the gate, It
may
be
Jehovah,
God of Hosts, doth
pity
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
said
Jehovah,
God of Hosts, the Lord, In all broad
places
`is'
lamentation,
And in all out-places
they
say,
`Alas,
alas,'
And
called
the husbandman
to mourning
, And to lamentation
the
skilful
of
wailing
.
There
will
be
wailing
in all the
vineyards, for I will
pass through
your
midst, ”
says
the
LORD
.
And
in all vineyards `is'
lamentation
, For I pass into
thy
midst, said
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 .
Ho,
ye
who are
desiring
the day of Jehovah,
Why
`is'
this
to
you
--
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
`when'
one
fleeth
from the
face
of
the
lion, And
the
bear hath
met
him
, And
he
hath
come
in
to
the
house ,
And hath
leant
his hand on
the wall, And
the
serpent
hath
bitten him
.
Will
not the Day of the
LORD
be
darkness and not light, even gloom
with
no brightness in
it
?
Is
not the day of Jehovah
darkness and not light, Even thick
darkness
that
hath
no brightness?
“
I hate,
I despise
your feasts!
I cannot
stand
the
stench
of
your solemn
assemblies
.
I have
hated
--
I have
loathed
your festivals,
And
I am
not
refreshed
by
your restraints
.
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
.
For
though ye
cause
burnt -
offerings and your
presents
to
ascend
to
Me
, I am
not pleased,
And
the
peace -offering
of your
fatlings
I behold
not
.
Take
away
from Me the noise of your
songs !
I
will
not
listen
to
the music
of your
harps
.
Turn
aside
from Me the noise of thy
songs ,
Yea,
the praise
of thy
psaltery
I
hear
not
.
But
let
justice
roll on like
a
river
, and righteousness like
an
ever-flowing
stream.
And
roll on as
waters
doth
judgment
, And righteousness as
a
perennial
stream.
Did you
bring Me sacrifices
and
offerings
forty
years
in the
wilderness, O house of Israel?
Sacrifices
and
offering
did ye
bring nigh
to
Me ,
In a
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.
And
ye
bare
Succoth
your king ,
and Chiun
your images,
The
star of
your
god, that
ye
made for yourselves.
Therefore
I will
send
you into
exile
beyond Damascus, ”
says
the
LORD
, whose
name
is
the
God of Hosts.
And
I removed
you beyond Damascus, Said
Jehovah
, God of Hosts `is'
His
name
.
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