5:4 The Lord says this to the family
“Seek me
5:5 Do not seek Bethel!
Do not visit Gilgal!
Do not journey down
For the people of Gilgal
and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.”
5:6 Seek the Lord so you can live!
Otherwise he will break out
the fire
and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.
5:7 The Israelites
they throw what is fair and right
5:8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;
he can turn the darkness into morning
and daylight
He summons the water of the seas
and pours it out on the earth’s surface.
The Lord is his name!
5:9 He flashes
so that destruction overwhelms