1Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.

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Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:1, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10

2The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.

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Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 18:13, Isaiah 43:17, Jeremiah 51:64

3For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.

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Isaiah 10:22, Ezekiel 12:16, Isaiah 6:13, Romans 9:27, Isaiah 10:22

4For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

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2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Zephaniah 2:3, Jeremiah 29:12

5But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

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Hosea 4:15, Hosea 4:15, Amos 4:4, Amos 8:14, Amos 4:4

6Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.

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Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:6, Amos 5:4, Amos 5:14, Mark 9:43

7You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

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Amos 6:12, Amos 6:12, Hosea 10:4, Ezekiel 3:20, Zephaniah 1:6

8Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

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Amos 4:13, Amos 4:13, Job 9:9, Job 9:9, Amos 9:6

9He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.

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Hebrews 11:34, Micah 5:11, 2 Kings 13:25, Jeremiah 37:10, 2 Kings 13:17

10They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

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1 Kings 22:8, Isaiah 29:21, 1 Kings 22:8, Isaiah 29:21, Jeremiah 17:16

11Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

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Micah 6:15, Zephaniah 1:13, Deuteronomy 28:30, Micah 6:15, Zephaniah 1:13

12Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

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Amos 2:6, Amos 2:7, Amos 2:6, Amos 2:7, Amos 5:10

13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

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Hosea 4:4, Micah 2:3, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:16, 2 Timothy 3:1

14Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.

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Joshua 1:9, Joshua 1:9, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6:33, Micah 6:8

15Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

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Romans 12:9, Romans 12:9, Psalms 97:10, 3 John 1:11, Joel 2:14

16Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.

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Joel 1:11, Joel 1:11, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:20, Jeremiah 9:17

17And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

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Exodus 12:12, Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 48:33, Isaiah 16:10, Jeremiah 48:33

18Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

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Joel 1:15, Joel 1:15, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:2, Joel 2:1

19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

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Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Jeremiah 15:2

20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

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Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 13:10, Zephaniah 1:15, Ezekiel 34:12, Zephaniah 1:15

21I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

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Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:16, Leviticus 26:31

22And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

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Micah 6:6, Micah 6:7, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:7, Amos 4:4

23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

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Amos 6:5, Amos 6:5, Amos 8:10, Amos 8:3, Amos 8:10

24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

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Micah 6:8, Micah 6:8, Jeremiah 22:3, Jeremiah 22:3, Hosea 6:6

25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

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Acts 7:42, Acts 7:43, Acts 7:42, Acts 7:43, Ezekiel 20:8

26But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

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2 Kings 23:12, 2 Kings 23:13, 2 Kings 23:12, 2 Kings 23:13, 1 Kings 11:33

27And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

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2 Kings 17:6, Acts 7:43, 2 Kings 17:6, Acts 7:43, Amos 4:13