1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?