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5:1  Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
5:2  The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
5:3  For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall have left a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall have left ten, to the house of Israel.
5:4  For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:
5:5  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 nothing.
5:6  Seek the LORD, and you 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.
5:7  You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
5:8  Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
5:9  That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.
5:10  They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
5:11  Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
5:12  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.
5:13  Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
5:14  Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
5:15  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
5:16  Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus: Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
5:17  And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
5:18  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.
5:19  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.
5:20  Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
5:21  I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.
5:22  Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted beasts.
5:23  Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps.
5:24  But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
5:25  Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
5:26  But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your star god, your images, which you made for yourselves.
5:27  Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.