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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.
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Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
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Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
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And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
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Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
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As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
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Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
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I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
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And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
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Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
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But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
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Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?