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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live;

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.

Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, and darkeneth the day into night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is His name;

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate.

Therefore the prudent doth keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

And in all vineyards shall be lamentation; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;

That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but they are not grieved for the hurt of Joseph.

And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house: 'Is there yet any with thee?' and he shall say: 'No'; then shall he say: 'Hold thy peace; for we must not make mention of the name of the LORD.'

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of the Arabah.

And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land--so I said: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'

but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.'

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.