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A Call to Repentance
Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing:
Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing:
A Lament and Call to Repentance
Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
“The virgin Israel has fallen,
never to rise again!
She lies abandoned on the ground,
with no one to help her up.”
never to rise again!
She lies abandoned on the ground,
with no one to help her up.”
“Fallen is Virgin Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.”
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.”
The Sovereign LORD says:
“When a city sends a thousand men to battle,
only a hundred will return.
When a town sends a hundred,
only ten will come back alive.”
“When a city sends a thousand men to battle,
only a hundred will return.
When a town sends a hundred,
only ten will come back alive.”
This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel:
“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.”
“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.”
Now this is what the LORD says to the family of Israel:
“Come back to me and live!
“Come back to me and live!
This is what the Lord says to Israel:
“Seek me and live;
“Seek me and live;
Don’t worship at the pagan altars at Bethel;
don’t go to the shrines at Gilgal or Beersheba.
For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile,
and the people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing.”
don’t go to the shrines at Gilgal or Beersheba.
For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile,
and the people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing.”
Seek the Lord and live,
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed.
You treat the righteous like dirt.
You treat the righteous like dirt.
There are those who turn justice into bitterness
and cast righteousness to the ground.
and cast righteousness to the ground.
It is the LORD who created the stars,
the Pleiades and Orion.
He turns darkness into morning
and day into night.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The LORD is his name!
the Pleiades and Orion.
He turns darkness into morning
and day into night.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The LORD is his name!
He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
who turns midnight into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land —
the Lord is his name.
who turns midnight into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land —
the Lord is his name.
With blinding speed and power he destroys the strong,
crushing all their defenses.
crushing all their defenses.
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
and brings the fortified city to ruin.
and brings the fortified city to ruin.
How you hate honest judges!
How you despise people who tell the truth!
How you despise people who tell the truth!
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court
and detest the one who tells the truth.
and detest the one who tells the truth.
You trample the poor,
stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent.
Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses,
you will never live in them.
Though you plant lush vineyards,
you will never drink wine from them.
stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent.
Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses,
you will never live in them.
Though you plant lush vineyards,
you will never drink wine from them.
You levy a straw tax on the poor
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
For I know the vast number of your sins
and the depth of your rebellions.
You oppress good people by taking bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
and the depth of your rebellions.
You oppress good people by taking bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
For I know how many are your offenses
and how great your sins.
There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
and how great your sins.
There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
So those who are smart keep their mouths shut,
for it is an evil time.
for it is an evil time.
Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times,
for the times are evil.
for the times are evil.
Do what is good and run from evil
so that you may live!
Then the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies will be your helper,
just as you have claimed.
so that you may live!
Then the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies will be your helper,
just as you have claimed.
Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
Hate evil, love good;
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.
Therefore, this is what the Lord, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says:
“There will be crying in all the public squares
and mourning in every street.
Call for the farmers to weep with you,
and summon professional mourners to wail.
“There will be crying in all the public squares
and mourning in every street.
Call for the farmers to weep with you,
and summon professional mourners to wail.
Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:
“There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
“There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
There will be wailing in every vineyard,
for I will destroy them all,”
says the LORD.
Warning of Coming Judgment
for I will destroy them all,”
says the LORD.
Warning of Coming Judgment
There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
for I will pass through your midst,”says the Lord.
for I will pass through your midst,”says the Lord.
What sorrow awaits you who say,
“If only the day of the LORD were here!”
You have no idea what you are wishing for.
That day will bring darkness, not light.
“If only the day of the LORD were here!”
You have no idea what you are wishing for.
That day will bring darkness, not light.
The Day of the Lord
Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
That day will be darkness, not light.
Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
That day will be darkness, not light.
In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion —
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house —
and he’s bitten by a snake.
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house —
and he’s bitten by a snake.
It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
Yes, the day of the LORD will be dark and hopeless,
without a ray of joy or hope.
without a ray of joy or hope.
Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light —
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
“I hate all your show and pretense —
the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
“I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
your assemblies are a stench to me.
your assemblies are a stench to me.
I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings.
I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.
I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
Away with your noisy hymns of praise!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,
an endless river of righteous living.
an endless river of righteous living.
But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
“Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
No, you served your pagan gods — Sakkuth your king god and Kaiwan your star god — the images you made for yourselves.