90 lines
3.3 KiB
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90 lines
3.3 KiB
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# Chapter 5
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1 Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
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2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;
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She will rise no more.
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She lies forsaken on her land;
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There is no one to raise her up.
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3 For thus says the Lord God:
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“The city that goes out by a thousand
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Shall have a hundred left,
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And that which goes out by a hundred
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Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
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4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
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“Seek Me and live;
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5 But do not seek Bethel,
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Nor enter Gilgal,
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Nor pass over to Beersheba;
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For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
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And Bethel shall come to nothing.
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6 Seek the Lord and live,
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Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
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And devour it,
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With no one to quench it in Bethel—
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7 You who turn justice to wormwood,
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And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
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8 He made the Pleiades and Orion;
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He turns the shadow of death into morning
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And makes the day dark as night;
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He calls for the waters of the sea
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And pours them out on the face of the earth;
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The Lord is His name.
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9 He rains ruin upon the strong,
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So that fury comes upon the fortress.
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10 They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
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And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
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11 Therefore, because you tread down the poor
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And take grain taxes from him,
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Though you have built houses of hewn stone,
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Yet you shall not dwell in them;
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You have planted pleasant vineyards,
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But you shall not drink wine from them.
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12 For I know your manifold transgressions
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And your mighty sins:
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Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
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Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
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13 Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time,
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For it is an evil time.
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14 Seek good and not evil,
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That you may live;
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So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
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As you have spoken.
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15 Hate evil, love good;
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Establish justice in the gate.
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It may be that the Lord God of hosts
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Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
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16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
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“There shall be wailing in all streets,
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And they shall say in all the highways,
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‘Alas! Alas!’
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They shall call the farmer to mourning,
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And skillful lamenters to wailing.
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17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
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For I will pass through you,”
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Says the Lord.
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18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
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For what good is the day of the Lord to you?
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It will be darkness, and not light.
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19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion,
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And a bear met him!
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Or as though he went into the house,
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Leaned his hand on the wall,
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And a serpent bit him!
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20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
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Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
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21 “I hate, I despise your feast days,
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And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
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22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
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I will not accept them,
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Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
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23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
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For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
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24 But let justice run down like water,
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And righteousness like a mighty stream.
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25 “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
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In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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26 You also carried Sikkuth your king
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And Chiun, your idols,
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The star of your gods,
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Which you made for yourselves.
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27 Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,”
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Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. |