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A Lament and Call to Repentance
Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
A Lament for Israel
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.”
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift 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 Sovereign Lord says to Israel:
“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.”
“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.”
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.
This is what the Lord says to Israel:
“Seek me and live;
“Seek me and live;
A Call to Repentance
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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 through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
and Bethel will have no one to quench 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 bitterness
and cast righteousness to the ground.
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 midnight into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land —
the Lord is his name.
who turns midnight into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land —
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:
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
and brings the fortified city to ruin.
and brings the fortified city to ruin.
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court
and detest the one who tells the truth.
and detest the one who tells the truth.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
You levy a straw tax on the poor
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
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 how many are your offenses
and how great your sins.
There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
and how great your sins.
There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
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 quiet in such times,
for the times are evil.
for the times are evil.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
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, love good;
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
on 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 Lord God Almighty, says:
“There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
“There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
The Coming Judgment
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.
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.
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.
The Day of the Lord
Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
That day will be darkness, not light.
Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
That day will be darkness, 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 as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
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, not light —
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
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 religious festivals;
your assemblies are a stench to me.
your assemblies are a stench to me.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
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.
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
righteousness like a never-failing 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, people of Israel?
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.