2. “Virgin Israel has fallen flat on her face.She’ll never stand up again.She’s been left where she’s fallen.No one offers to help her up.”
3. This is the Message, God’s Word:“The city that marches out with a thousandwill end up with a hundred.The city that marches out with a hundredwill end up with ten. Oh, family of Israel!”
6. So seek God and live! You don’t want to end upwith nothing to show for your lifeBut a pile of ashes, a house burned to the ground.For God will send just such a fire,and the firefighters will show up too late.
13. Justice is a lost cause. Evil is epidemic.Decent people throw up their hands.Protest and rebuke are useless,a waste of breath.
14. Seek good and not evil—and live!You talk about God, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies,being your best friend.Well, live like it,and maybe it will happen.