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Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you 4cleanness of teeth in all your cities.
And lack of bread in all your places;
mYet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
9 “I nblasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
oThe locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a plague pafter the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
As God overthrew qSodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
rPrepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
He who forms mountains,
And creates the 5wind,
sWho declares to man what 6his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
tWho treads the high places of the earth—
uThe Lord God of hosts is His name.
5 Hear this word which I atake up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.
“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
5 But do not seek dBethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to eBeersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And fBethel shall come to nothing.
6 gSeek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
7 You who hturn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
8 He made the iPleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
jAnd makes the day dark as night;
He kcalls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
lThe Lord is His name.
9 He 1rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.
10 mThey hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they nabhor the one who speaks uprightly.
11 oTherefore, because you 2tread down the poor
And take grain 3taxes from him,
Though pyou have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted 4pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.
12 For I qknow your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
rAfflicting the just and taking bribes;
sDiverting the poor from justice at the gate.
13 Therefore tthe prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
uAs you have spoken.
15 vHate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
wIt may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
xAnd skillful lamenters to wailing.
17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For yI will pass through you,”
Says the Lord.
18 zWoe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is athe day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be bas though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
21 “I chate, I despise your feast days,
And dI do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 eThough you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24 fBut let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 “Did gyou offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried 5Sikkuth 6 hyour king
And 6Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into captivity ibeyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, jwhose name is the God of hosts.
6 Woe ato you who are at bease in Zion,
And ctrust in Mount Samaria,
Notable persons in the dchief nation,
To whom the house of Israel comes!
2 eGo over to fCalneh and see;
And from there go to gHamath the great;
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
hAre you better than these kingdoms?
Or is their territory greater than your territory?
3 Woe to you who iput far off the day of jdoom,
kWho cause lthe seat of violence to come near;
Stretch out on your couches,
Eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall;
5 mWho sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves nmusical instruments olike David;
6 Who pdrink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
qBut are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go rcaptive as the first of the captives,
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
8 sThe Lord God has sworn by Himself,
The Lord God of hosts says:
“I abhor tthe pride of Jacob,
And hate his palaces;
Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
9 Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when 1a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the 2bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”
Then someone will say, “None.”
And he will say, u“Hold your tongue! vFor we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 For behold, wthe Lord gives a command:
xHe will break the great house into bits,
And the little house into pieces.
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet yyou have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13 You who rejoice over 3Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken 4Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”
14 “But, behold, zI will raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,”
Says the Lord God of hosts;
“And they will afflict you from the aentrance of Hamath
To the Valley of the Arabah.”
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