Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha TMBA
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7 ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth!"
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There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.
8 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, who 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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He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name.
9 who strengtheneth the despoiled against the strong, so that the despoiled shall come against the fortress.
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With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
11 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 from them.
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You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor at the gate from their right.
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For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
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