3 For thus says the Lord GOD:“The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4 For the Lord says to the house of Israel:“Seek me, and you will live;
5 but don’t seek Bethel,nor enter into Gilgal,and don’t pass to Beersheba:for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek the Lord, and you will live;lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn justice to wormwood,and cast down righteousness to the earth:
8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,and turns the shadow of death into the morning,and makes the day dark with night;who calls for the waters of the sea,and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,
9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong,so that destruction comes on the fortress.