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For thus saith the LordGOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leaveten, to the house of Israel.
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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 daydark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD 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 speakethuprightly.
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have builthouses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have plantedpleasantvineyards, but ye shall not drinkwine of them.
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For I know your manifoldtransgressions and your mightysins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establishjudgment in the gate: it may be that the LORDGod of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
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Therefore the LORD, 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.