1. Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.
2. The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.
3. For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
4. For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
5. But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.
6. Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.
7. You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
8. Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9. He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.
10. They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.