Basic HTML Version
not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23
But this people hath a revolting and
a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the
L
ORD
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25
Your iniquities have turned away these
things,
and your sins have withholden good
things
from you.
26
For among my people are found wicked
men:
they lay wait, as he that setteth snares;
they set a trap, they catch men.
27
As a cage is full of birds, so
are
their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they
overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they
prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29
Shall I not visit for these
things?
saith the
L
ORD
: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31
The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have it
so: and what will ye do in
the end thereof?
CHAPTER 6
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the
trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north,
and great destruction.
2
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.
3
The
shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch
their
tents against her round about;
they shall feed every one in his place.
4
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5
Arise, and
let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6
For thus hath the L
ORD
of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem:
this
is
the city to be visited; she
is
wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7
As a fountain casteth
out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
continually is grief and wounds.
8
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee;
lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9
Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn
back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10
To whom shall I speak, and give warning,
that they may hear? behold, their ear
is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word
of the L
ORD
is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11
Therefore I am full of the fury
of the L
ORD
; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the
assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with
him that is
full of days.
12
And their houses shall be turned unto others,
with their
fields and wives
together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the L
ORD
.
13
For from
856
KJV Bible