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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 5
Israel exhorted to seek the Lord and do good that they may
live—Their sacrifices to false gods are abhorrent.
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1 HEAR ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; 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 Israel.
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4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house
of Israel, aSeek ye me, and ye shall live:
5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal,
and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
aBeth-el shall come to nought.
6 aSeek the LORD, and ye
shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour
it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
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7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that maketh
athe seven bstars and Orion, and turneth
the shadow of death into the cmorning, and maketh the day
ddark with night: that calleth for the
ewaters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of
the earth: fThe LORD is his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
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10 They hate him that rebuketh in the
agate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading
is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have
abuilt houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not
bdwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye
shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and
your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a
abribe, and they bturn aside the
cpoor in the gate from their right.
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13 Therefore the aprudent
shall keep bsilence in that time; for it is an evil
time.
14 Seek agood, and not
bevil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts,
shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and alove
the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD
God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of
bJosepha.
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15a it may be that the LORD God of host
will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph Yea, though Joseph,
that is Ephraim as Israel, be scattered the Lord will preserve the
remnant of Joseph unto the Lord's own purposes. In the blessing of the seed
of father Lehi of the Book of Mormon comes the everlasting gospel to the
earth in the latter days. And in the seed from Joseph is the promises of
the fathers preserved and fulfilled (D&C 27:10), both in the work of the Messiah
(see: Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph),
and in the work of the latter day prophet descended from Joseph of Egypt in
the restoration of the gospel to the blessing of the whole earth, the
nations thereof that they are so blessed by the seed of Abraham unto the
fulfilling of the covenant of Abraham first from Ephraim and then Ephraim
and his companions unto the whole earth as it is now occuring in and through
the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. And thus it will proceed on and into the
great and millennial day to the fulness of the fulfillment thereof.
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16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
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18 Woe unto you that
adesire the bday of the
LORD!a to what end is it for you?
the day of the LORD is cdarkness, and not light.
19 As 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 be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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18a Woe unto you that desire the day of
the LORD! Many a person will say let the Second Coming of the Lord
come and even that they do lookforeward unto that day. They do not realize
just what all that day does envolve. It is a 'Great and Dreadful Day', even
for the righteous who may survive and remain, it will be dreadful to have
experienced. It is a day in which evil will be destroyed and those who are
found evil will fall and even the righteous will be witness to it and not
exempt from beholding and experiencing the awfulness of that day.
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21 ¶ I hate, I despise your
afeast days, and I will not bsmell in
your csolemn assemblies.
22 Though ye aoffer me burnt
offerings and your meat offerings, I will not baccept
them: neither will I regard the cpeace offerings of
your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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24 But let ajudgment run
down as waters, and brighteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your
aMoloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which
ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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