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Chapter 5
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even
a lamentation, O house of Israel. |
2
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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
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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
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek
ye me, and ye shall live: |
5
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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
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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
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness
in the earth, |
8
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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
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That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. |
10
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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor
him that speaketh uprightly. |
11
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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
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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
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time;
for it is an evil time. |
14
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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
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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
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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. |
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And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass
through thee, saith the LORD. |
18
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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
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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
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Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
21
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell
in your solemn assemblies. |
22
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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
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for
I will not hear the melody of thy viols. |
24
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream. |
25
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in
the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? |
26
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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made
to yourselves. |
27
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. |
