3 This is what the Lord God says:“If a thousand soldiers leave a city,only a hundred will return;if a hundred soldiers leave a city,only ten will return.”
4 This is what the Lord says to the nation of Israel:“Come to me and live.
5 But do not look in Bethelor go to Gilgal,and do not go down to Beersheba.The people of Gilgal will be taken away as captives,and Bethel will become nothing.”
6 Come to the Lord and live,or he will move like fire against the descendants of Joseph.The fire will burn Bethel,and there will be no one to put it out.
7 You turn justice upside down,and you throw on the ground what is right.
8 God is the one who made the star groups Pleiades and Orion;he changes darkness into the morning light,and the day into dark night.He calls for the waters of the seato pour out on the earth.The Lord is his name.
9 He destroys the protected city;he ruins the strong, walled city.