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And offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened,And call for freewill offerings; cause them to be heard about.For so you love to do, you sons of Israel,"Declares Lord Yahweh.

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what are His thoughts,He who makes dawn into gloomAnd treads on the high places of the earth,Yahweh God of hosts is His name.

Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral lament, O house of Israel:

For thus says Lord Yahweh,"The city which goes forth one thousand strongWill have one hundred left,And the one which goes forth one hundred strongWill have ten left to the house of Israel."

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel,"Seek Me that you may live.

But do not seek Bethel,And do not come to Gilgal,Nor cross over to Beersheba;For Gilgal will certainly go into exile,And Bethel will become evil.

Seek Yahweh that you may live,Lest He come mightily like a fire, O house of Joseph,And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

For those who overturn justice into wormwoodAnd put righteousness down to the earth."

He who made the Pleiades and OrionAnd overturns the shadow of death into morning,Who also darkens day into night,Who calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the surface of the earth,Yahweh is His name.

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are mighty,You who distress the righteous and take bribesAnd turn aside the needy in the gate.

Therefore at such a time the one with insight keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

Woe, you who are longing for the day of Yahweh,For what purpose will the day of Yahweh be to you?It will be darkness and not light;

"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

Who improvise to the sound of the harp,And like David have composed songs for themselves,

Then one's uncle, or the one who burns his bones, will lift him up to bring out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer, "Keep quiet. For the name of Yahweh is not to be mentioned."

For behold, Yahweh is going to command and will strike the great house to pieces and the small house to fragments.

You who are glad in Lo‑debarAnd say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"

"For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel," declares Yahweh God of hosts,"And they will press down on you from Lebo‑hamathTo the brook of the Arabah."

And it happened when it had completed eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,"Lord Yahweh, please pardon!How can Jacob rise up,For he is small?"