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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out
by
a thousand shall leave an hundred,
and that which went forth
by
an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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For thus saith the L
ORD
unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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But seek not
Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Bethel shall come to nought.
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Seek the L
ORD
, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in
the house of Joseph, and devour
it,
and
there be
none to quench
it
in Bethel.
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Ye who turn judgment
to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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Seek him
that maketh the seven stars and
Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that
calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The L
ORD
is
his
name:
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That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the
fortress.
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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading
is
upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat:
ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant
vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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For I know your manifold transgressions and
your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate
from their right.
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it
is
an evil time.
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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the L
ORD
, the God of hosts, shall be with you,
as ye have spoken.
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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may
be that the L
ORD
God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
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Therefore the L
ORD
,
the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing
shall be
in all streets; and they shall say in all the
highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of
lamentation to wailing.
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And in all vineyards
shall be
wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith
the L
ORD
.
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the L
ORD
! to what end
is
it for you? the day of the
L
ORD
is
darkness, and not light.
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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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Shall
not the day of the
L
ORD
be
darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Though
ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept
them:
neither will I regard
the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will
not hear the melody of thy viols.
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream.
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years,
O house of Israel?
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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the
star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the L
ORD
, whose name
is
The God of hosts.
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