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\c 5
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\p
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\v 1 Hear this word that I take up as a lament over you, house of Israel.
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\q
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\v 2 The virgin Israel has fallen;
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\q she will rise no more;
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\q she is forsaken on her land;
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\q there is no one to raise her up.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 For this is what the Lord Yahweh says:
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\q "The city that went out with a thousand will have a hundred left,
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\q and the one that went out with a hundred will have ten left
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\q belonging to the house of Israel."
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\q
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\v 4 For this is what Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
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\q "Seek me and live!
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\q
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\v 5 Do not seek Bethel;
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\q nor enter Gilgal;
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\q do not journey to Beersheba.
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\q For Gilgal will surely go into captivity,
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\q and Bethel will become nothing.
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\q
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\v 6 Seek Yahweh and live,
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\q or he will break out like fire
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\q in the house of Joseph.
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\q It will devour,
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\q and there will be no one to quench it in Bethel.
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\q
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\v 7 Those people turn justice into a bitter thing
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\q and throw righteousness down to the ground!"
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\q
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\v 8 God made the Pleiades and Orion;
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\q he turns darkness into the morning;
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\q he makes the day dark with night
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\q and calls for the waters of the sea;
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\q he pours them out on the surface of the earth.
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\q Yahweh is his name!
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\q
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\v 9 He brings sudden destruction on the strong
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\q so that destruction comes on the fortresses.
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\q
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\v 10 They hate anyone who corrects them in the city gate,
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\q and they abhor anyone who speaks the truth.
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\q
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\v 11 Because you trample down the poor
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\q and take portions of wheat from him—
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\q although you have built houses of worked stone,
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\q you will not live in them.
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\q You have delightful vineyards,
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\q but you will not drink their wine.
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\q
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\v 12 For I know how many are your offenses
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\q and how great are your sins—
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\q you who afflict the just,
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\q take bribes,
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\q and turn aside the needy in the city gate.
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\q
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\v 13 Therefore any prudent person is silent at such a time,
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\q for it is an evil time.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Seek good and not evil,
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\q so that you may live.
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\q So Yahweh, the God of hosts, will really be with you,
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\q as you say he is.
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\q
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\v 15 Hate evil, love good,
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\q establish justice in the city gate.
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\q Perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious
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\q to the remnant of Joseph.
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\q
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\v 16 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says,
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\q the God of hosts, the Lord,
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\q "Wailing will be in all the squares,
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\q and they will say in all the streets,
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\q 'Woe! Woe!'
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\q They will call the farmers to mourning
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\q and the mourners to wail.
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\q
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\v 17 In all vineyards there will be wailing,
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\q for I will pass through your midst,"
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\q says Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 18 Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!
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\q Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
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\q It will be darkness and not light,
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\q
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\v 19 as when a man flees from a lion
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\q and a bear meets him,
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\q or he goes in a house and puts his hand on the wall
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\q and a snake bites him.
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\q
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\v 20 Will not the day of Yahweh be darkness and not light?
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\q Gloom and no brightness?
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\q
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\v 21 "I hate, I despise your festivals,
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\q I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
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\q
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\v 22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
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\q I will not accept them,
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\q neither will I look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.
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\q
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\v 23 Remove from me the noise of your songs;
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\q I will not listen to the sound of your harps.
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\q
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\v 24 Instead, let justice flow like water,
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\q and righteousness like a constantly flowing stream.
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\q
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\v 25 Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
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\q in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel?
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\q
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\v 26 You have lifted up the images of Sikkuth, your king,
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\q and Kaiwan, your star god—
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\q which you made for yourselves.
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\q
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\v 27 Therefore I will exile you beyond Damascus,"
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\q says Yahweh,
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\q whose name is the God of hosts.
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