3 The Lord God proclaims:The city that marched out one thousand peoplewill have one hundred left,and the city that marched out one hundred will have ten left in the house of Israel.
4 The Lord proclaims to the house of Israel:Seek me and live.
5 But don’t seek Bethel,don’t enter into Gilgal,or cross over to Beer-sheba;for Gilgal will go into exile,and Bethel will come to nothing.
6 Seek the Lord and live,or else God might rush like a fire against the house of Joseph.The fire will burn up Bethel, with no one to put it out.
7 Doom to you who turn justice into poison,and throw righteousness to the ground!
8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,and turns deep darkness into the morning,and darkens the day into night;who summons the waters of the sea,and pours them out on the surface of the earth—this one’s name is the Lord—
9 who causes destruction to flash out against the strong,so that destruction comes upon the fortress.