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\c 5
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 "Hear this, priests!
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\q Pay attention, house of Israel!
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\q Listen, house of the king!
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\q For judgment is coming against you all.
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\q You have been a snare at Mizpah
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\q and a net spread over Tabor.
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\q
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\v 2 The rebels stand deep in slaughter,
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\q but I will punish all of them.
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\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa The rebels have dug a deep pit \fqb , \fqa The rebels have dug deep at Shittim \fqb , or, continuing on from the previous verse, \fqa a pit dug deep at Shittim \fqb . \f*
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\q
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\v 3 I know Ephraim,
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\q and Israel is not hidden from me.
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\q Ephraim, now you have become like a prostitute;
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\q Israel is defiled.
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\q
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\v 4 Their deeds will not allow them to turn to God,
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\q for the mind of adultery is in them,
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\q and they do not know Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 5 The pride of Israel testifies against him;
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\q so Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt;
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\q and Judah also will stumble with them.
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\q
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\v 6 They will go with their flocks and herds to seek Yahweh,
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\q but they will not find him,
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\q for he has withdrawn himself from them.
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\q
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\v 7 They were unfaithful to Yahweh,
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\q for they have borne illegitimate children.
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\q Now the new moon festivals will devour them with their fields.
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\p
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\q
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\v 8 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
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\q and the trumpet in Ramah.
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\q Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven:
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\q 'We will follow you, Benjamin!'
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\q
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\v 9 Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment.
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\q Among the tribes of Israel I have declared what is certain to happen.
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\q
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\v 10 The leaders of Judah are like those who move a boundary stone.
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\q I will pour my wrath on them like water.
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\q
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\v 11 Ephraim is crushed;
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\q he is crushed in judgment,
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\q because he was determined to bow down to idols.
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\q
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\v 12 So I will be like a moth to Ephraim,
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\q and like rot to the house of Judah.
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\q
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\v 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
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\q and Judah saw his wound,
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\q then Ephraim went to Assyria,
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\q and Judah sent messengers to the great king.
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\q But he was not able to cure you people
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\q or heal your wound.
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\q
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\v 14 So I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
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\q and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
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\q I, even I, will tear and go away;
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\q I will carry them off,
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\q and there will be no one to rescue them.
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\q
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\v 15 I will go and return to my place,
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\q until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
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\q until they earnestly seek me in their distress."
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