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1 Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.
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Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.
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Fallen, no more to rise, is maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
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For thus says the Lord God: The city that marched out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which marched out a hundred shall have ten left.
4 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
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For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and live;
5 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.
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but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.
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Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.
7 You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
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Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!
8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
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The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,
9 He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.
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who makes destruction flash out against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
10 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
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They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.
11 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.
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Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
12 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.
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For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and push aside the needy in the gate.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.
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Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
14 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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Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said.
15 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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Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 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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Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, "Alas! alas!" They shall call the farmers to mourning, and those skilled in lamentation, to wailing;
17 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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in all the vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord.
18 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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Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, not light;
19 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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as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear; or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake.
20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
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Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
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I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 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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Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon.
23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
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Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
24 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
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But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
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Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
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You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;
27 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
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therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.
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