rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered. 004:008 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. 004:009 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. 004:010 "I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. 004:011 "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. 004:012 "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. 004:013 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name." 005:001 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 005:002 "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." 005:003 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." 005:004 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; 005:005 but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. 005:006 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel. 005:007 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: 005:008 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name, 005:009 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress. 005:010 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly. 005:011 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.