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14 ‘Pursue good and not evil,
    so that you may live,
and this is what will happen:[a]
    The Lord God of the Heavenly Armies will be with you,
        as you have been claiming.
15 Hate evil and love good,
    and establish justice in court—[b]
perhaps the Lord, the God of the Heavenly Armies,
will be gracious to the survivors of Joseph.’”

16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says:

‘There will be dirges in all of the streets;
        and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish.[c]
They will call the farmer to mourning
    and those who lament[d] to grieve.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:14 Lit. And so it was
  2. Amos 5:15 Lit. in the gates
  3. Amos 5:16 Lit. will say, “Alas! Alas!”
  4. Amos 5:16 I.e. professional mourners

14 Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.(A)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.
15 Hate evil,(B) love good;(C)
    maintain justice in the courts.(D)
Perhaps(E) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy(F)
    on the remnant(G) of Joseph.

16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:

“There will be wailing(H) in all the streets(I)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers(J) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.

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