14 Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
(A)As you have spoken.
15 (B)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
(C)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Day of the Lord

16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:

There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
(D)And skillful lamenters to wailing.

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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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