1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord GOD;
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel,
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,