4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live;
5 But do not seek Bethel,Nor enter Gilgal,Nor pass over to Beersheba;For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,And Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek the Lord and live,Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,And devour it,With no one to quench it in Bethel—
7 You who turn justice to wormwood,And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
8 He made the Pleiades and Orion;He turns the shadow of death into morningAnd makes the day dark as night;He calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the face of the earth;The Lord is His name.
9 He rains ruin upon the strong,So that fury comes upon the fortress.
10 They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.