1Hear you^2f this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

2The virgin of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.

3For thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehoveeh (THE FATHER); The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

4For thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Seek you^2f me, and you^2f shall live:

5But seek not Beit-El [House of God], nor enter into Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], and pass not to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath]: for Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling] shall surely go into captivity, and Beit-El [House of God] shall come to nothing.

6Seek the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and you^2f shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Beit-El [House of God].

7You^2f who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

8[Seek him] that makes the seven stars (Kimah (Pleiades) [a cluster]) and Kesil (Orion) [The Fool], and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] his name:

9That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

10They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

11Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and you^2f take from him burdens of wheat: you^2f have built houses of cut stone, but you^2f shall not dwell in them; you^2f have planted pleasant vineyards, but you^2f shall not drink wine of them.

12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].

13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.

14Seek good, and not evil, that you^2f may live: and so the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], shall be with you, as you^2f have spoken.

15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] will be gracious unto the remnant of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add].

16Therefore the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the Lord-Adonai (The Father)[Greatest Above All Things], says thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

17And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through youⁱ, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] darkness, and not light.

19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

20[Shall] not the day of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

22Though you^2f offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

23Take youⁱ away from me the noise of yourⁱ songs; for I will not hear the melody of yourⁱ viols.

24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

25Have you^2f offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? 26But you^2f have borne the tabernacle of your king and Kiyun [an image or pillar] your images, the star of your god, which you^2f made to yourselves. 27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), whose name [is] The God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].