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It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall - only to be bitten by a snake!
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The day of the Lord will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.
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The Lord says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!
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When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings.
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Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps.
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Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.
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"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.
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But now, because you have worshiped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images
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when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is Almighty God.