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Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
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"I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
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Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
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Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
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But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
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"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.
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Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.