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15 Hate evil and love good.
Then you will be able to have justice in your courts.
Maybe the Lord God of Armies
will have pity on the faithful few of Joseph.

16 This is what the Lord, the Almighty God of Armies, 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.
17 There will be loud crying in every vineyard,
because I will pass through your land ⌞with death⌟.

The Lord has said this.

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15 Hate evil,(A) love good;(B)
    maintain justice in the courts.(C)
Perhaps(D) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy(E)
    on the remnant(F) of Joseph.

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

“There will be wailing(G) in all the streets(H)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers(I) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.
17 There will be wailing(J) in all the vineyards,
    for I will pass through(K) your midst,”
says the Lord.(L)

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