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Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
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See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!
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I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
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The Day of the Lord
You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
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The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
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The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
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In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
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Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
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But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”
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In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,
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In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
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The Branch of the Lord
In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
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It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.
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A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”
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to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel— let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”
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Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
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In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.
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“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
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With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
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He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
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Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
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And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”
