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Seek the Lord and live,
    or he will rush upon the house of Joseph like fire.
    The fire will consume, and no one will extinguish it for Bethel.

There are some who turn justice into wormwood,[a]
    who throw righteousness to the ground.

There is one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
    who turns the shadow of death into morning,
    who darkens day into night,
    who summons the waters of the seas,
    who pours them out upon the face of the earth—
    the Lord is his name.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Wormwood is a toxic, bitter-tasting substance (absinthe).