Let Justice Roll Down
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z Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD!
For what good is a the day of the LORD to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
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It will be b as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
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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 c hate, I despise your feast days,
And d I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
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e 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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f But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
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"Did g you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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You also carried Sikkuth h 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 i beyond Damascus,"
Says the LORD, j whose name is the God of hosts.
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Cross References
Isaiah 5:19
That say, "Let Him make speed and hasten His wo...
Jeremiah 17:15
Indeed they say to me, "Where is the word of th...
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at...
Joel 2:1
Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in...
Joel 2:11
The LORD gives voice before His army, For His c...
Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the ...
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Cross References
Isaiah 5:30
In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.
Joel 2:2
A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
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Cross References
Job 20:24
He will flee from the iron weapon; A bronze bow will pierce him through.
Isaiah 24:17
Fear and the pit and the snare Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18
And it shall be That he who flees from the noise of the fear Shall fall into the pit, And he who comes up from the midst of the pit Shall be caught in the snare; For the windows from on high are open, And the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment," says the LORD.
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Cross References
Isaiah 1:11 - 16
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.
Amos 4:4
Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days.
Amos 4:5
Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings; For this you love, You children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
Jeremiah 14:12
"When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."
Hosea 5:6
With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
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Cross References
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine's blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
Micah 6:7
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Cross References
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezekiel 45:9
Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
Nehemiah 9:18 - 21
Even when they made a molded calf for themselves, And said, 'This is your god That brought you up out of Egypt,' And worked great provocations.
Acts 7:42
Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:43
You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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Cross References
1 Kings 11:33
Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
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Cross References
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Amos 7:11
"For thus Amos has said: 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land.'"
Amos 7:17
"Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by survey line; You shall die in a defiled land; And Israel shall surely be led away captive From his own land.'"
Micah 4:10
Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, Like a woman in birth pangs. For now you shall go forth from the city, You shall dwell in the field, And to Babylon you shall go. There you shall be delivered; There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.
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Cross References
Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth - The LORD God of hosts is His name.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.