1Hear ye this word which I take up against you,
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise:
3For thus saith the Lord God;
4For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel,
5But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal,
6Seek the Lord, and ye shall live;
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood,
8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion,
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate,
11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time;
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live:
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:
16Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus;
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing:
18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord!
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;
20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?
21I hate, I despise your feast days,
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them:
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
24But let judgment run down as waters,
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,