微读圣经

Lamentation for Israel

1Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,5:1 Jr 7:29; 9:10,17; Ezk 19:1 house of Israel:

2She has fallen;

Virgin Israel5:2 Jr 14:17; 31:4,21 will never rise again.5:2 Am 8:14

She lies abandoned on her land

with no one to raise her up.5:2 Is 51:18

3For the Lord God says:

The city that marches out a thousand strong

will have only a hundred left,5:3 Is 6:13

and the one that marches out a hundred strong

will have only ten left5:3 Am 6:9 in the house of Israel.

Seek God and Live

4For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek me and live!5:4 Dt 4:29; 32:46–47

5Do not seek Bethel5:5 1Kg 12:28–29

or go to Gilgal5:5 1Sm 7:16; 11:14

or journey to Beer-sheba,5:5 Gn 21:31–33

for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,

and Bethel will come to nothing.

6Seek the Lord5:6 Is 55:3,6–7 and live,

or he will spread like fire5:6 Dt 4:24; 32:22; Heb 12:29

throughout the house of Joseph;

it will consume everything

with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.5:6 Is 33:14; 66:24; Jr 4:4

7Those who turn justice into wormwood5:7 Am 6:12

also throw righteousness to the ground.

8The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,5:8 Jb 9:9; 38:31

who turns darkness5:8 Or turns the shadow of death into dawn5:8 Gn 1:2–3; Jb 38:12

and darkens day into night,5:8 Am 8:9

who summons the water of the sea5:8 Ps 104:6–9; Jr 10:13

and pours it out over the surface of the earth5:8 Jb 36:27–30 —

the Lord is his name.5:8 Am 4:13; 9:5–6

9He brings destruction5:9 Hb obscure on the strong,5:9 Or stronghold5:9 Is 29:5

and it falls on the fortress.5:9 Mc 5:11

10They hate the one who convicts the guilty5:10 Is 29:21

at the city gate,

and they despise5:10 Is 59:15 the one who speaks with integrity.

11Therefore, because you trample on the poor5:11 Am 3:9; 8:6; Jms 1:27

and exact a grain tax from him,

you will never live in the houses of cut stone5:11 Am 3:15; 6:11

you have built;

you will never drink the wine

from the lush vineyards

you have planted.5:11 Dt 28:30; Mc 6:15; Zph 1:13

12For I know your crimes are many

and your sins innumerable.

They oppress the righteous,5:12 Is 1:23; 5:23 take a bribe,

and deprive the poor of justice5:12 Am 2:6–7 at the city gates.

13Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent5:13 Or who are prudent will perish5:13 Ec 3:7; Hs 4:4

at such a time,

for the days are evil.

14Pursue good and not evil

so that you may live,

and the Lord, the God of Armies,

will be with you

as you have claimed.5:14 Is 48:1–2

15Hate evil and love good;5:15 Rm 12:9

establish justice at the city gate.5:15 Is 1:17

Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious5:15 Jl 2:14

to the remnant of Joseph.5:15 Mc 3:5,7–8

16Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;5:16 Jr 9:10,18–20; Am 8:3

they will cry out in anguish5:16 Lit will say, “Alas! Alas!” in all the streets.

The farmer will be called on to mourn,5:16 Jl 1:11

and professional mourners5:16 Lit and those skilled in lamentation5:16 Jr 9:17 to wail.

17There will be wailing in all the vineyards,5:17 Is 16:10; Jr 48:33

for I will pass among you.5:17 Ex 12:12

The Lord has spoken.

The Day of the Lord

18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!5:18 Is 5:19; Jl 1:15; 2:1,11,31

What will the day of the Lord be for you?

It will be darkness and not light.5:18 Is 5:30

19It will be like a man who flees from a lion5:19 Jb 20:24; Is 24:17; Jr 15:2–3

only to have a bear confront him.

He goes home and rests his hand against the wall

only to have a snake bite him.

20Won’t the day of the Lord

be darkness rather than light,5:20 Is 13:10; Zph 1:15

even gloom without any brightness in it?5:20 Jl 2:2; Zph 1:15

21I hate, I despise, your feasts!5:21 Is 1:11–16; 66:3; Am 6:8

I can’t stand the stench

of your solemn assemblies.5:21 Lv 26:31; Jr 14:12; Hs 5:6

22Even if you offer me

your burnt offerings and grain offerings,5:22 Mc 6:6–7

I will not accept them;5:22 Jr 14:12

I will have no regard

for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.5:22 Lv 7:11–15

23Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.5:23 Is 5:12

24But let justice flow like water,

and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.5:21–24 Mc 6:6–8

25“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?5:25 Dt 32:17; Jos 24:14; Neh 9:18–21; Ac 7:42–43

26But you have taken up5:26 Or you will lift up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,5:26 LXX reads taken up the tent of Molech and the star of your god Rephan; Ac 7:43 images you have made for yourselves.5:26 Is 44:12–20

27So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”5:25–27 2Kg 17:5–6; Ac 7:42–43 The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.5:27 Am 4:13 He has spoken.

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