4. For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live;
5. But do not seek Bethel,Nor enter Gilgal,Nor pass over to Beersheba;For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,And Bethel shall come to nothing.
6. Seek the Lord and live,Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,And devour it,With no one to quench it in Bethel—
7. You who turn justice to wormwood,And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
8. He made the Pleiades and Orion;He turns the shadow of death into morningAnd makes the day dark as night;He calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the face of the earth;The Lord is His name.
9. He rains ruin upon the strong,So that fury comes upon the fortress.