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Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.

And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, [By] the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!

And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And [are] sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.

For a day [is] to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,

And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,

And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,

And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures.

In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,

Cease for you from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.

In that day is the Shoot of Jehovah for desire and for honour, And the fruit of the earth For excellence and for beauty to the escaped of Israel.