American Standard Version (ASV):
Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.
King James Version (KJV):
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
King James Version (KJV):
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
King James Version (KJV):
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
King James Version (KJV):
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
American Standard Version (ASV):
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins–ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right] .
King James Version (KJV):
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
American Standard Version (ASV):
Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.
King James Version (KJV):
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
American Standard Version (ASV):
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
King James Version (KJV):
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
King James Version (KJV):
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
American Standard Version (ASV):
that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.
King James Version (KJV):
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
King James Version (KJV):
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,