4. For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5. but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
6. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be none to quench it in Beth-el:
7. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;
8. seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the Lord is his name;
9. that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.