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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