¹⁴ Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.^(A)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.
¹⁵ Hate evil,^(B) love good;^(C)
    maintain justice in the courts.^(D)
Perhaps^(E) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy^(F)
    on the remnant^(G) of Joseph.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter your rooms
    and shut the doors^(A) behind you;
hide^(B) yourselves for a little while
    until his wrath^(C) has passed by.^(D)
21 See, the Lord is coming^(E) out of his dwelling^(F)
    to punish^(G) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood^(H) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

⁹ when you, God, rose up to judge,^(A)
    to save all the afflicted^(B) of the land.

²⁶ The poor will eat^(A) and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him—^(B)
    may your hearts live forever!

⁶ Seek^(A) the Lord while he may be found;^(B)
    call^(C) on him while he is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake^(D) their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.^(E)
Let them turn^(F) to the Lord, and he will have mercy^(G) on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.^(H)