1Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

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Psalms 36:4, Psalms 36:4, Isaiah 32:7, Isaiah 32:7, Nahum 1:11

2And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

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Isaiah 5:8, Isaiah 5:8, Amos 8:4, Jeremiah 22:17, Amos 8:4

3Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

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Amos 5:13, Jeremiah 8:3, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Amos 5:13

4In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

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Habakkuk 2:6, Habakkuk 2:6, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:21, Micah 1:15

5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

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Joshua 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:8, Joshua 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:8, Joshua 18:10

6Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

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Amos 2:12, Amos 2:12, Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 30:10, Acts 5:40

7The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

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Psalms 84:11, Psalms 84:11, Psalms 15:2, Jeremiah 15:16, Psalms 15:2

8But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.

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Psalms 120:6, Psalms 120:7, Psalms 120:6, Psalms 120:7, 2 Chronicles 28:5

9You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their children.

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Ezekiel 39:21, Habakkuk 2:14, Ezekiel 39:21, Habakkuk 2:14, 2 Corinthians 3:18

10Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

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Deuteronomy 12:9, Deuteronomy 12:9, Psalms 106:38, Psalms 106:38, Hebrews 4:1

11Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

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Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 5:31, Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 30:11, Isaiah 30:10

12I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

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Micah 4:6, Micah 4:7, Micah 4:6, Micah 4:7, Jeremiah 31:7

13For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.

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Isaiah 52:12, Isaiah 52:12, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, Zechariah 9:14