⁴ For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

¹⁵ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah trespass; and come ye not unto Gilgal, neither go up to Beth-aven, nor swear [As] Jehovah liveth!

⁴ Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁵ For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."

⁶ Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

⁷ It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸ He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

⁹ You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.