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\c 13
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\v 1 "When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
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\q He exalted himself in Israel,
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\q but he became guilty because of Baal worship, and he died.
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\q
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\v 2 Now they sin more and more.
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\q They make cast metal figures from their silver,
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\q idols as skillfully worked as possible,
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\q all of them the work of the craftsmen.
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\q People say of them,
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\q 'These men who sacrifice kiss calves.'
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\v 3 So they will be like the morning clouds,
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\q like the dew that goes away early,
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\q like the chaff that is driven by the wind away from a threshing floor,
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\q and like smoke out of a chimney.
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\v 4 But I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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\q You must acknowledge no God but me;
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\q you must acknowledge that besides me, there is no other savior.
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\q
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\v 5 I knew you in the wilderness,
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\q in the land of great dryness.
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\q
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\v 6 When you had pasture, then you became full;
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\q and when you were filled, your heart became lifted up;
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\q for that reason you forgot me.
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\v 7 I became like a lion to them;
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\q like a leopard I will watch along the path.
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\v 8 I will attack them like a bear that is robbed of her cubs.
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\q I will rip open their chests,
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\q and there I will devour them like a lion—
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\q like a wild beast would tear them to pieces.
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\v 9 It is your destruction, Israel, that is coming,
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\q because you are against me, your helper.
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\v 10 Where now is your king,
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\q that he may save you in all your cities?
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\q Where are your rulers, about whom you said to me,
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\q 'Give me a king and princes'?
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\v 11 I gave you a king in my anger,
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\q and I took him away in my wrath.
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\v 12 Ephraim's iniquity has been stored up;
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\q his guilt has been stored up.
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\v 13 Pains of childbirth will come on him,
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\q but he is an unwise son,
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\q for when it is time to be born, he does not come out of the womb.
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\q
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\v 14 Will I really rescue them from the power of sheol?
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\q Will I really rescue them from death?
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\q Death, where are your plagues? Bring them here.
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\q Sheol, where is your destruction? Bring it here.
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\q Compassion is hidden from my eyes."
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\v 15 Though Ephraim is prosperous among his brothers,
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\q an east wind will come;
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\q the wind of Yahweh will blow in from the wilderness.
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\q Ephraim's spring will dry up,
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\q and his well will have no water.
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\q His enemy will plunder his storehouse of every precious object.
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\v 16 Samaria will be guilty,
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\q for she has rebelled against her God.
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\q They will fall by the sword;
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\q their young children will be dashed to pieces,
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\q and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
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