Seek the Lord(A) and live,
or he will spread like fire(B)
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.(C)
Those who turn justice into wormwood(D)
also throw righteousness to the ground.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,(E)
who turns darkness[a] into dawn(F)
and darkens day into night,(G)
who summons the water of the sea(H)
and pours it out over the surface of the earth(I)
the Lord is his name.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:8 Or turns the shadow of death

Seek(A) the Lord and live,(B)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;(C)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel(D) will have no one to quench it.(E)

There are those who turn justice into bitterness(F)
    and cast righteousness(G) to the ground.(H)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(I)
    who turns midnight into dawn(J)
    and darkens day into night,(K)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(L)

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