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14 Search for good instead of evil so that you may live.
    Then Yahweh Elohe Tsebaoth will be with you, as you have said.
15 Hate evil and love good.
    Then you will be able to have justice in your courts.
        Maybe Yahweh Elohe Tsebaoth
            will have pity on the faithful few of Joseph.

16 This is what Adonay Yahweh Elohe Tsebaoth, says:

There will be loud crying in every city square,
    and people will say in every street, “Oh, no!”
    They will call on farmers to mourn
    and on professional mourners to cry loudly.

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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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