4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel,
“aSeek Me bthat you may live.
5 But do not seek aBethel,
And do not come to bGilgal,
Nor cross over to cBeersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
And Bethel will become evil.
6 aSeek Yahweh that you may live,
Lest He come mightily like a bfire, O house of Joseph,
And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,
7 For those who overturn ajustice into wormwood
And put righteousness down to the earth.”
8 He who made the aPleiades and Orion
And boverturns the shadow of death into morning,
Who also cdarkens day into night,
Who dcalls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
eYahweh is His name.