Daily Bread

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.

“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.
¹⁷ There will be wailing^(K) in all the vineyards,
    for I will pass through^(L) your midst,”
says the Lord.^(M)

²¹ “I hate,^(V) I despise your religious festivals;^(W)
    your assemblies^(X) are a stench to me.
²² Even though you bring me burnt offerings^(Y) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.^(Z)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.^(AA)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(AB)
24 But let justice^(AC) roll on like a river,
    righteousness^(AD) like a never-failing stream!^(AE)

²⁵ “Did you bring me sacrifices^(AF) and offerings
    forty years^(AG) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
²⁶ You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
    the pedestal of your idols,^(AH)
    the star of your god^[a]—
    which you made for yourselves.
²⁷ Therefore I will send you into exile^(AI) beyond Damascus,”
    says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.^(AJ)