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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: iti may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Ex. 32:30• ³⁰And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah: perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin. (Ex. 32:30)

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2 Kings 19:4• ⁴It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left. (2 Kings 19:4)

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Joel 2:14• ¹⁴Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God? (Joel 2:14)

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Hate.

Psa. 34:14• ¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. (Psa. 34:14)

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Psa. 36:4• ⁴He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil. (Psa. 36:4)

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Psa. 37:27• ²⁷Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore; (Psa. 37:27)

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Psa. 97:10• ¹⁰Ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints, he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 97:10)

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Psa. 119:104• ¹⁰⁴From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path. (Psa. 119:104)

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Psa. 139:21‑22• ²¹Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies. (Psa. 139:21‑22)

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Rom. 7:15‑16,22• ¹⁵For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
¹⁶But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.
²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: (Rom. 7:15‑16,22)

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Rom. 8:7• ⁷Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: (Rom. 8:7)

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Rom. 12:9• ⁹Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good: (Rom. 12:9)

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1 Thess. 5:21‑22• ²¹but prove all things, hold fast the right;
²²hold aloof from every form of wickedness. (1 Thess. 5:21‑22)

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3 John 11• ¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God. (3 John 11)

establish.

Amos 5:10,24• ¹⁰They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
²⁴but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:10,24)

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Amos 6:12• ¹²Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, (Amos 6:12)

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2 Chron. 19:6‑11• ⁶And he said to the judges, Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah, who will be with you in the matter of judgment.
⁷And now, let the terror of Jehovah be upon you; be careful what ye do, for there is no iniquity with Jehovah, nor respect of persons, nor taking of presents.
⁸--And moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set some of the Levites and priests, and of the chief fathers of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah and for causes.--And they returned to Jerusalem.
⁹And he charged them saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Jehovah faithfully and with a perfect heart.
¹⁰And what cause soever comes to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against Jehovah, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren: this do and ye shall not trespass.
¹¹And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Jehovah, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, prince of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters; and ye have the Levites before you as officers. Be strong and do it, and Jehovah will be with the good. (2 Chron. 19:6‑11)

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Psa. 82:2‑4• ²How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
³Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
⁴Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 82:2‑4)

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Jer. 7:5‑7• ⁵But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,
⁶if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
⁷then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever. (Jer. 7:5‑7)

it may.

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2 Sam. 16:12• ¹²It may be that Jehovah will look on mine affliction, and that Jehovah will requite me good for my being cursed this day. (2 Sam. 16:12)

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1 Kings 20:31• ³¹And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save thy life. (1 Kings 20:31)

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Joel 2:14• ¹⁴Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God? (Joel 2:14)

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Jonah 3:9• ⁹Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? (Jonah 3:9)

the remnant.

Amos 5:6• ⁶Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. (Amos 5:6)

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2 Kings 13:7• ⁷For he had left of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing. (2 Kings 13:7)

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2 Kings 14:26‑27• ²⁶For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
²⁷And Jehovah had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; and he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. (2 Kings 14:26‑27)

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2 Kings 15:29• ²⁹In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29)

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Jer. 31:7• ⁷For thus saith Jehovah: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. (Jer. 31:7)

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Mic. 2:12• ¹²I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. (Mic. 2:12)

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Mic. 5:3,7‑8• ³Therefore will he give them up, until the time when she which travaileth shall have brought forth: and the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
⁷And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, neither waiteth for the sons of men.
⁸And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver. (Mic. 5:3,7‑8)

J. N. Darby Translation

Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.