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- Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion,
- And turneth the shadow of death into the morning,
- And maketh the day dark with night:
- That calleth for the waters of the sea,
- And poureth them out upon the face of the earth:
- The Lord is his name:
- That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
- So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
- They hate him that rebuketh in the gate,
- And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
- Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,
- And ye take from him burdens of wheat:
- Ye have built houses of hewn stone,
- But ye shall not dwell in them;
- Ye have planted pleasant vineyards,
- But ye shall not drink wine of them.
- For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
- They afflict the just, they take a bribe,
- And they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
- Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time:
- For it is an evil time.
- Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live:
- And so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
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