Fixed all 4 versions to have every book
This commit is contained in:
@@ -1,142 +1,92 @@
|
||||
Lamentation for Israel
|
||||
|
||||
# Chapter 5
|
||||
1. Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:
|
||||
|
||||
2. She has fallen;
|
||||
1 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:
|
||||
2 She has fallen;
|
||||
Virgin Israel will never rise again.
|
||||
|
||||
She lies abandoned on her land
|
||||
with no one to raise her up.
|
||||
|
||||
3. For
|
||||
the Lord God says:
|
||||
3 For the Lord God says:
|
||||
The city that marches out a thousand strong
|
||||
will have only a hundred left,
|
||||
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
|
||||
will have only ten left in the house of Israel.
|
||||
|
||||
Seek God and Live
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
4. For
|
||||
the Lord says to the house of Israel:
|
||||
4 For the Lord says to the house of Israel:
|
||||
Seek me and live!
|
||||
|
||||
5. Do not seek Bethel
|
||||
5 Do not seek Bethel
|
||||
or go to Gilgal
|
||||
or journey to Beer-sheba,
|
||||
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
|
||||
and Bethel will come to nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
6. Seek
|
||||
the Lord and live,
|
||||
6 Seek the Lord and live,
|
||||
or he will spread like fire
|
||||
throughout the house of Joseph;
|
||||
it will consume everything
|
||||
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
|
||||
|
||||
7. Those who turn justice into wormwood
|
||||
7 Those who turn justice into wormwood
|
||||
also throw righteousness to the ground.
|
||||
|
||||
8. The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
|
||||
8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
|
||||
who turns darkness into dawn
|
||||
and darkens day into night,
|
||||
who summons the water of the sea
|
||||
and pours it out over the surface of the earth--
|
||||
and pours it out over the surface of the earth—
|
||||
the Lord is his name.
|
||||
|
||||
9. He brings destruction on the strong,
|
||||
9 He brings destruction on the strong,
|
||||
and it falls on the fortress.
|
||||
|
||||
10. They hate the one who convicts the guilty
|
||||
10 They hate the one who convicts the guilty
|
||||
at the city gate,
|
||||
and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.
|
||||
|
||||
11. Therefore, because you trample on the poor
|
||||
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor
|
||||
and exact a grain tax from him,
|
||||
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
|
||||
you have built;
|
||||
you will never drink the wine
|
||||
from the lush vineyards
|
||||
you have planted.
|
||||
|
||||
12. For I know your crimes are many
|
||||
12 For I know your crimes are many
|
||||
and your sins innumerable.
|
||||
They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,
|
||||
and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
|
||||
|
||||
13. Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent
|
||||
13 Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent
|
||||
at such a time,
|
||||
for the days are evil.
|
||||
|
||||
14. Pursue good and not evil
|
||||
14 Pursue good and not evil
|
||||
so that you may live,
|
||||
and
|
||||
the Lord, the God of Armies,
|
||||
and the Lord, the God of Armies,
|
||||
will be with you
|
||||
as you have claimed.
|
||||
|
||||
15. Hate evil and love good;
|
||||
15 Hate evil and love good;
|
||||
establish justice at the city gate.
|
||||
Perhaps
|
||||
the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious
|
||||
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious
|
||||
to the remnant of Joseph.
|
||||
|
||||
16. Therefore
|
||||
the Lord, the God of Armies,
|
||||
the Lord, says:
|
||||
16 Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
|
||||
There will be wailing in all the public squares;
|
||||
they will cry out in anguish in all the streets.
|
||||
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
|
||||
and professional mourners to wail.
|
||||
|
||||
17. There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
|
||||
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
|
||||
for I will pass among you.
|
||||
|
||||
The Lord has spoken.The Day of
|
||||
the Lord
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
18. Woe to you who long for the day of
|
||||
the Lord!
|
||||
What will the day of
|
||||
the Lord be for you?
|
||||
The Lord has spoken.
|
||||
18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!
|
||||
What will the day of the Lord be for you?
|
||||
It will be darkness and not light.
|
||||
|
||||
19. It will be like a man who flees from a lion
|
||||
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion
|
||||
only to have a bear confront him.
|
||||
|
||||
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
|
||||
only to have a snake bite him.
|
||||
|
||||
20. Won't the day of
|
||||
the Lord
|
||||
20 Won’t the day of the Lord
|
||||
be darkness rather than light,
|
||||
even gloom without any brightness in it?
|
||||
|
||||
21. I hate, I despise, your feasts!
|
||||
I can't stand the stench
|
||||
21 I hate, I despise, your feasts!
|
||||
I can’t stand the stench
|
||||
of your solemn assemblies.
|
||||
|
||||
22. Even if you offer me
|
||||
22 Even if you offer me
|
||||
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
|
||||
I will not accept them;
|
||||
I will have no regard
|
||||
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.
|
||||
|
||||
23. Take away from me the noise of your songs!
|
||||
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!
|
||||
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
24. But let justice flow like water,
|
||||
24 But let justice flow like water,
|
||||
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.
|
||||
|
||||
25. "House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?
|
||||
26. But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
|
||||
27. So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus."
|
||||
The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?
|
||||
26 But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
|
||||
27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user