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"For this is what the LORD of armies says: 'Just as I determined to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to anger,' says the LORD of armies, 'and I have not relented,

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

so I have again determined in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!

So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

'These are the things which you shall do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace at your gates.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these things are what I hate,' declares the LORD."

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord .