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He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who brings deathlike shadows over the morning, who darkens the day into night, who calls for the water in the sea and with it floods the earth - ADONAI is his name
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he flashes destruction on the strong, so that destruction overcomes the fortress.
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They hate anyone promoting justice at the city gate, they detest anyone who speaks the truth.
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Therefore, because you trample on the poor and extort from them levies of grain; although you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; and though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
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For I know how numerous are your crimes and how outrageous your sins - bullying the innocent, extorting ransoms pushing the poor aside at the gate.
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At times like these a prudent person stays silent, for it is an evil time.
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Seek good and not evil, so that you will survive. Then Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot will be with you, as you say he is.
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Hate evil, love good, and uphold justice at the gate. Maybe Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot will take pity on the survivors of Yosef.
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Therefore thus says Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot, Adonai: "In all public squares there will be lamentation, in all the streets they will cry, 'Oh, no!' They will summon farmers to mourn and professional mourners to wail.
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There will be wailing in every vineyard, for I will pass through among you," says ADONAI.
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Woe to you who want the Day of ADONAI! Why do you want it, this Day of ADONAI? It is darkness, not light;