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The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day [into] night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh [is] his name!
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The one who makes destruction flash upon [the] fierce, {so that} destruction comes upon [the] fortification.
10
They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.
11
Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.
12
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
13
Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil.
14
Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
15
Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious [to] the remnant of Joseph.
16
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all [of] the public squares [there will be] wailing, and in all [of] the streets [they will say], 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call [the] farmers to mourning and [to] wailing, to those who are skilled [in] lamentation.
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And in all [of the] vineyards [there will be] wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh.
The Day of Yahweh
18 Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why [is] this for you the day of Yahweh? It [will be] darkness and not light!