13FOR HERE! [ONE WHO] FORMED MOUNTAINS AND [ONE WHO] CREATED WIND AND [ONE WHO] TELLS TO HUMANKIND WHAT? [IS] THOUGHT HIS [ONE WHO] MAKES <OF> DAWN DARKNESS AND [ONE WHO] TREADS ON [THE] HIGH PLACES OF [THE] EARTH [IS] YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS NAME HIS 13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
1HEAR <OBJ.> THE WORD <THE> THIS WHICH I [AM] LIFTING UP ON YOU A LAMENTATION O HOUSE OF ISRAEL A Lamentation against Israel 1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2SHE HAS FALLEN NOT SHE WILL REPEAT TO RISE [THE] VIRGIN OF ISRAEL SHE HAS BEEN ABANDONED ON OWN LAND HER THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] RAISES UP HER 2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
3FOR THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH THE CITY WHICH GOES OUT A THOUSAND IT WILL HAVE LEFT A HUNDRED AND WHICH GOES OUT A HUNDRED IT WILL HAVE LEFT TEN OF [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL 3This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
4FOR THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH TO [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL SEEK ME AND LIVE A Call to Repentance (Joel 1:13–20; Zephaniah 2:1–3; Luke 13:1–5) 4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
5AND MAY NOT YOU SEEK BETH- -EL AND <THE> GILGAL NOT YOU MUST GO AND BEER SHEBA NOT YOU MUST PASS OVER FOR <THE> GILGAL CERTAINLY <GO INTO EXILE> IT WILL GO INTO EXILE AND BETH- -EL IT WILL BECOME <INTO> TROUBLE 5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.*NoteCloseHebrew to Aven, a reference to Beth-aven, a derogatory term for Bethel; see Hosea 4:15.
6SEEK <OBJ.> YAHWEH AND LIVE LEST HE SHOULD RUSH LIKE <THE> FIRE [THE] HOUSE OF JOSEPH AND IT WILL CONSUME AND NOT [ONE WHO] EXTINGUISHES [IT] [WILL BELONG] TO BETH- -EL 6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7O THOSE [WHO] TURN INTO WORMWOOD JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE GROUND THEY THRUST DOWN 7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
8[THE] MAKER OF PLEIADES AND ORION AND [THE ONE WHO] TURNS INTO <THE> MORNING DEEP DARKNESS AND DAY NIGHT HE MAKES DARK THE [ONE WHO] SUMMONS <TO> [THE] WATERS OF THE SEA AND HE POURED OUT THEM ON [THE] SURFACE OF THE EARTH [IS] YAHWEH NAME HIS 8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, 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—
9THE [WHO] CAUSES TO FLASH DEVASTATION ON [THE] STRONG AND DEVASTATION ON A FORTRESS IT WILL COME 9He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
10THEY HATE IN THE GATE [ONE WHO] REPROVES AND [ONE WHO] SPEAKS BLAMELESS THEY ABHOR 10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
11<TO> THEREFORE BECAUSE TRAMPLE YOU ON [THE] POOR AND A PORTION OF GRAIN YOU TAKE FROM HIM HOUSES OF HEWN [STONE] YOU HAVE BUILT AND NOT YOU WILL DWELL IN THEM VINEYARDS OF DELIGHT YOU HAVE PLANTED AND NOT YOU WILL DRINK <OBJ.> WINE THEIR 11Therefore, because you trample on the poor 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.
12FOR I KNOW MANY TRANSGRESSIONS YOUR AND NUMEROUS SINS YOUR O OPPOSERS OF [THE] RIGHTEOUS O TAKERS OF RANSOM AND NEEDY [PEOPLE] IN THE GATE THEY TURN ASIDE 12For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
13<TO> THEREFORE THE PRUDENT [PERSON] AT THE TIME <THE> THAT HE WILL BE SILENT FOR [IS] A TIME EVIL IT 13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
14SEEK GOOD AND MAY NOT [IT BE] EVIL SO THAT YOU WILL LIVE AND IT MAY BE THUS YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS [WILL BE] WITH YOU JUST AS YOU HAVE SAID 14Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
15HATE EVIL AND LOVE GOOD AND SET UP IN THE GATE JUSTICE PERHAPS HE WILL SHOW FAVOR TO YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS [THE] REMNANT OF JOSEPH 15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS [THE] LORD [WILL BE] IN ALL [THE] OPEN PLACES WAILING AND IN ALL [THE] STREETS PEOPLE WILL SAY ALAS! ALAS! AND PEOPLE WILL CALL A FARMER TO MOURNING AND WAILING TO [THOSE WHO] KNOW <OF> LAMENTATION Woe to Rebellious Israel (Acts 7:39–43) 16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “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.
17AND [WILL BE] IN ALL [THE] VINEYARDS WAILING FOR I WILL PASS IN MIDST YOUR HE SAYS YAHWEH 17There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
18WOE TO! THOSE [WHO] DESIRE <OBJ.> [THE] DAY OF YAHWEH <TO> WHY? THIS TO YOU [THE] DAY OF YAHWEH IT [WILL BE] DARKNESS AND NOT LIGHT 18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
19JUST AS HE FLEES SOMEONE FROM BEFORE THE LION AND IT MEETS HIM THE BEAR AND HE GOES THE HOUSE AND HE LEANS HAND HIS ON THE WALL AND IT BITES HIM THE SNAKE 19It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
20¿ NOT [BE] DARKNESS [WILL] [THE] DAY OF YAHWEH AND NOT LIGHT AND GLOOMY AND NOT BRIGHTNESS [WILL BELONG] TO IT 20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
21I HATE I REJECT FEASTS YOUR AND NOT I DELIGHT IN ASSEMBLIES YOUR 21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22THAT EXCEPT YOU WILL OFFER UP TO ME BURNT OFFERINGS AND GRAIN OFFERINGS YOUR NOT I WILL ACCEPT [THEM] AND [THE] PEACE OFFERING OF FATLINGS YOUR NOT I WILL PAY ATTENTION TO 22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23REMOVE FROM WITH <THE> ME [THE] NOISE OF SONGS YOUR AND [THE] MUSIC OF LYRES YOUR NOT I WILL LISTEN TO 23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24AND IT MAY ROLL ON LIKE <THE> WATER JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A WADI EVER-FLOWING 24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25¿ SACRIFICES AND GRAIN OFFERING[S] DID YOU BRING NEAR TO ME IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEAR[S] O HOUSE OF ISRAEL 25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26AND YOU WILL LIFT UP <OBJ.> SIKKUTH KING YOUR AND <OBJ.> KIYYUN IMAGES YOUR [THE] STAR OF GODS YOUR WHICH YOU MADE FOR YOURSELVES 26You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,*NoteCloseLXX You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan the idols you made for yourselves.
27AND I WILL SEND INTO EXILE <OBJ.> YOU FROM BEYOND <TO> DAMASCUS HE SAYS [IS] YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS NAME HIS 27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”*NoteCloseCited in Acts 7:42–43 says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.