30:005:007 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave
off righteousness
in
the earth,
30:005:008 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:
30:005:009 That strengtheneth the spoiled against
the strong, so that the
spoiled
shall come against the fortress.
30:005:010 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate,
and they abhor him
that
speaketh uprightly.
30:005:011 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.
30:005:012 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.
30:005:013 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence
in that time; for it
is
an evil time.
30:005:014 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.
30:005:015 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish
judgment in
the
gate: it may be that the lord God of hosts
will be
gracious
unto the remnant of Joseph.
30:005:016 Therefore the lord, the God of hosts,
the lord, saith thus;
Wailing
shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all
the
highways,
Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning,
and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
30:005:017 And in all vineyards shall be wailing:
for I will pass through
thee,
saith the lord.
30:005:018 Woe unto you that desire the day of the
lord! to what end is
it
for you? the day of the lord is darkness, and
not light.
30:005:019 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a
bear met him; or went
into
the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
bit
him.
30:005:020 Shall not the day of the lord be darkness,
and not light? even
very
dark, and no brightness in it?
30:005:021 I hate, I despise your feast days, and
I will not smell in
your
solemn assemblies.
30:005:022 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and
your meat offerings, I
will
not accept them: neither will I regard the peace
offerings
of your fat beasts.


