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14 Seek good and not evil,
    so you may live,
and so Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot may be with you
    —just as you said!
15 Hate evil, love good,
    maintain justice at the gate.
Maybe Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will
    extend grace to Joseph’s remnant.[a]

16 Therefore thus said Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, my Lord:
“There will be wailing in all plazas and in all streets.
They will say: ‘Alas! Alas!’
The farmer will be called to mourning
    along with those who know the lamentation song.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:15 cf. Rom. 12:9.