1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2“Fallen is Virgin Israel,
3This is what the Lord GOD says:
4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel:
5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal;
6Seek the LORD and live,
7There are those who turn justice into wormwood
8He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
9He flashes destruction on the strong,
10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate
11Therefore, because you trample on the poor
12For I know that your transgressions are many
13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times,
14Seek good, not evil,
15Hate evil and love good;
16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:
17There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD!
19It will be like a man who flees from a lion,
20Will not the Day of the LORD
21“I hate, I despise your feasts!
22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
23Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
24But let justice roll on like a river,
25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings
26You have taken along Sakkuth your king
27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”5:27 Cited in Acts 7:42–43