“Seek^(A) me and live;^(B)

⁶ Seek^(A) the Lord and live,^(B)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;^(C)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel^(D) will have no one to quench it.^(E)

⁸ He who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(A)
    who turns midnight into dawn^(B)
    and darkens day into night,^(C)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.^(D)

¹⁴ Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.^(A)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.

¹⁵ Hate evil,^(A) love good;^(B)
    maintain justice in the courts.^(C)
Perhaps^(D) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy^(E)
    on the remnant^(F) of Joseph.