“Seek me, and you will live;
⁵ but don’t seek Bethel,
    nor enter into Gilgal,
    and don’t pass to Beersheba:
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
    and Bethel shall come to nothing.
⁶ Seek Yahweh, and you will live;
    lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
    and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
⁷ You who turn justice to wormwood,
    and cast down righteousness to the earth:
⁸ seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,
    and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
    and makes the day dark with night;
    who calls for the waters of the sea,
    and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
⁹ who brings sudden destruction on the strong,
    so that destruction comes on the fortress.
¹⁰ They hate him who reproves in the gate,
    and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
¹¹ Therefore, because you trample on the poor,
    and take taxes from him of wheat:
    You have built houses of cut stone,
    but you will not dwell in them.
You have planted pleasant vineyards,
    but you shall not drink their wine.
¹² For I know how many are your offenses,
    and how great are your sins—
    you who afflict the just,
    who take a bribe,
    and who turn away the needy in the courts.
¹³ Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,
    for it is an evil time.
¹⁴ Seek good, and not evil,
    that you may live;
    and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
    as you say.
¹⁵ Hate evil, love good,
    and establish justice in the courts.
    It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”