A Lamentation against Israel
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: Ezk 19:1Jer 7:29Jer 9:10Jer 9:17Amo 3:1Amo 4:1Amo 5:16Ezk 19:14
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, Jer 14:17Hos 14:12Ki 15:292Ki 17:16Amo 7:2-5Amo 8:14Amo 9:11Ezk 16:36-37
never to rise again.
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.”
This is what the Lord GOD says: Ezk 12:16Isa 10:22Isa 6:13Rom 9:27Deu 28:62Deu 4:27Isa 1:9Amo 6:9
“The city that marches out a thousand strong
will only see a hundred return,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
A Call to Repentance
(Joel 1:13–20; Zephaniah 2:1–3; Luke 13:1–5)
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: 2Ch 15:2Zep 2:3Jer 29:12-13Isa 55:3Psa 14:2Isa 55:6-7Mat 7:8Psa 105:3-4
“Seek Me and live!
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; Hos 4:15Amo 4:4Amo 8:14Gen 21:331Co 1:281Co 2:6Amo 7:17Rev 18:17
do not journey to Beersheba,
for Gilgal will surely go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing. 1
Seek the LORD and live, Ezk 20:47-48Ezk 33:11Isa 55:6Amo 5:14Amo 5:4Gen 48:8-20Mrk 9:43-48Zec 10:6
or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph;
it will devour everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
There are those who turn justice into wormwood Amo 6:12Amo 5:11-12Deu 29:18Ezk 3:20Hos 10:4Zep 1:6Ezk 18:24Ezk 33:12-13
and cast righteousness to the ground.
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, Amo 4:13Job 9:9Amo 9:6Amo 8:9Psa 104:20Job 38:31-32Exo 10:21-23Job 12:22
who turns darkness into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who summons the waters of the sea
and pours them over the face of the earth—
the LORD is His name—
He flashes destruction on the strong, 2Ki 13:172Ki 13:25Heb 11:34Jer 37:10Mic 5:11
so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate 1Ki 22:8Isa 29:21Jhn 8:45-47Jer 17:16-171Ki 18:171Ki 21:202Ch 24:20-222Ch 25:16
and despise him who speaks with integrity.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor Deu 28:30Mic 6:15Zep 1:13Jas 2:6Hag 1:6Rev 11:8-10Amo 3:15Mic 2:2
and exact from him a tax of grain,
you will never live
in the stone houses you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards you have planted.
For I know that your transgressions are many Amo 2:6-7Amo 5:10Isa 1:231Sa 8:3Act 7:52Jas 5:4Mal 3:5Psa 26:9-10
and your sins are numerous.
You oppress the righteous by taking bribes;
you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, 2Ti 3:1Ecc 3:7Eph 5:15-16Hos 4:4Mic 2:3Amo 6:10Ecc 9:12Eph 6:13
for the days are evil.
Seek good, not evil, Jos 1:9Mat 6:33Mic 3:11Mic 6:8Php 4:8-92Ti 4:221Ch 28:20Gen 39:2-3
so that you may live.
And the LORD, the God of Hosts,
will be with you, as you have claimed.
Hate evil and love good; Rom 12:93Jn 1:11Jol 2:14Psa 97:101Th 5:21-22Mic 5:7-8Rom 8:7Mic 5:3
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Woe to Rebellious Israel
(Acts 7:39–43)
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: Jol 1:11Jer 9:17-20Jer 9:10Amo 3:13Amo 5:27Amo 8:10Isa 15:2-5Isa 15:8
“There will be wailing in all the public squares
and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.
The farmer will be summoned to mourn,
and the mourners to wail.
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, Exo 12:12Isa 16:10Jer 48:33Exo 12:23Hos 9:1-2Isa 32:10-12Jol 3:17Nam 1:12
for I will pass through your midst,”
says the LORD.
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! Jol 1:15Jol 2:1-2Jol 2:31Jer 30:7Mal 4:1Isa 24:11-12Isa 5:19Isa 5:30
What will the Day of the LORD be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, Isa 24:17-18Jer 15:2-3Act 28:4Jer 48:43-441Ki 20:29-30Amo 9:1-2Job 20:24-25
only to encounter a bear,
or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall,
only to be bitten by a snake.
Will not the Day of the LORD Isa 13:10Ezk 34:12Zep 1:15Job 10:21-22Job 3:4-6Jud 1:13Mat 22:13Nam 1:8
be darkness and not light,
even gloom with no brightness in it?
“I hate, I despise your feasts! Isa 1:11-16Pro 28:9Lev 26:31Isa 66:3Jer 6:20Pro 15:8Hos 8:13Gen 8:21
I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, Mic 6:6-7Amo 4:4-5Isa 66:3Lev 7:12-15Psa 107:21-22Psa 116:17Psa 50:23Psa 50:8-14
I will not accept them;
for your peace offerings of fattened cattle
I will have no regard.
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! Amo 6:5Amo 8:10Amo 8:3
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like a river, Mic 6:8Jer 22:3Pro 21:3Hos 6:6Mrk 12:32-34Amo 5:14-15Amo 5:7Job 29:12-17
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings Act 7:42-43Ezk 20:8Neh 9:18Ezk 20:16Jos 24:14Lev 17:7Neh 9:21Deu 32:17-19
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
You have taken along Sakkuth your king 2Ki 23:12-13Lev 20:2-51Ki 11:33Lev 18:21
and Kaiwan your star god, 2
the idols you made for yourselves.
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” 3 2Ki 17:6Act 7:43Amo 4:132Ki 15:29
says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.