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| Chapter 5
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1 |
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O
house of Israel. |
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. |
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. |
4 | For thus saith the LORD unto the house
of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: |
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. |
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. |
7 | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and
leave off righteousness in the earth, |
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: |
9 | That
strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress. |
10 |
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that
speaketh uprightly. |
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. |
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. |
13 |
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil
time. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
17 |
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee,
saith the LORD. |
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. |
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. |
20 |
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very
dark, and no brightness in it? |
21 | I
hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies. |
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. |
23 | Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. |
24 | But let judgment run down as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty stream. |
25 |
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:42
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26 |
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Acts 7:43
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27 |
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Acts 7:43
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