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\c 4
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\q1
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\v 1 Listen to the message Yahweh has for you.
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\q2 "You people of Israel, Yahweh is accusing you, you who live in this place."
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\q1 He says, "I cannot find anyone here who tells the truth.
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\q2 I cannot see anyone who loves me.
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\q1 None of you can honestly say that he knows me.
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\q1
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\v 2 You curse and lie, you kill and steal, and you commit adultery.
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\q1 You have broken every law,
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\q2 and you commit one murder after another.
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\q1
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\v 3 Because of what the people are doing, the land is now a wilderness.
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\q2 Every creature that lives here is dying,
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\q1 from the animals that live in the fields,
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\q2 to the birds that fly in the sky;
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\q1 even the fish in the sea, they are also dying.
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\q1
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\v 4 But you must not accuse anyone else for this trouble.
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\q2 You must not allow anyone to correct another person; no one has that right, because everyone is guilty.
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\q1 And I am also accusing the priests.
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\v 5 You priests sin during the day
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\q2 and the prophets with you sin at night.
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\q1 I promise you, I will destroy Israel, who is like a mother to you.
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\q2
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\v 6 My people are perishing because you priests have refused to understand me.
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\q1 And why do you understand me so little? Because you have rejected the things I have instructed you to do.
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\q2 So I am rejecting you from being priests to me.
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\q1 Look at what you have forgotten: You have forgotten the instructions that I, your God, gave to you.
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\q2 Because you forgot me, I will forget your children.
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\q1
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\v 7 The more numerous you priests become,
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\q2 the more you do the things that I have forbidden.
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\q2
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\q1 Everyone respects you now, but I will make them dishonor you.
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\q1
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\v 8 When other people sin, they bring sacrifices to me, some of which you eat.
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\q2 So you want the people to sin more and more.
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\q1
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\v 9 I will punish you priests just as I punish the people.
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\q2 I will punish all of you for your behavior;
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\q2 I will pay you all back for all the wicked deeds you have done.
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\q1
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\v 10 You all will eat, but you will never get enough. You will always be hungry.
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\q2 They will continue to sleep with other women, but the women will not conceive,
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\q1 because you have all abandoned me, Yahweh.
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\q1
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\v 11 You love to do forbidden sexual acts,
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\q2 and to drink wine and new wine.
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\q2 All these things have made it impossible for you to know right from wrong.
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\q1
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\v 12 My own people pray to an idol made from a piece of wood.
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\q2 They ask their walking staffs to tell them which way they should go!
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\q1 They are always wanting to sin in sexual ways, so they have stopped obeying me, the God whom they should worship.
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\q2
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\v 13 They worship other gods in the places on the tops of the mountains where they have set up idols. They burn offerings to the idols up on those hills—
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\q1 in all the places where they worship those idols—under the oak trees, poplar trees, and the terebinth trees—
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\q2 because these trees give good shade.
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\q1 Following your example, your daughters decided to become prostitutes,
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\q2 and your daughters-in-law committed adultery.
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\v 14 But I will not punish the women for turning to prostitution,
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\q1 or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery.
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\q2 It is the men who are doing the very same thing!
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\q1 The men sleep with prostitutes,
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\q2 and they offer sacrifices in the houses of idols where there are prostitutes.
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\q2 It is true: "A people who have not lived as they were taught to live, will come to destruction."
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\v 15 Israel, you have left me and gone to idols.
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\q1 But I hope that Judah will not do the same thing.
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\q2 You people of Judah, do not go to Gilgal. Do not go up to Beth Aven to worship idols there.
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\q1 Do not make solemn oaths, calling on me to make good on your promises, adding to your vows the words, 'As Yahweh lives!"
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\v 16 Israel is as stubborn as a young cow.
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\q2 Can I now feed them as if they were little lambs in a meadow?
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\q1
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\v 17 Ephraim has gone to join idols.
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\q2 Leave those people alone!
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\v 18 When they have finished drinking all their alcoholic drinks
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\q2 then they will commit even more sexual sins.
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\q2 Their rulers love to do these shameful things.
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\v 19 Someone will attack them; he will be like a whirlwind that lifts them up and carries them away to another place.
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\q2 Only then will they be ashamed because they gave offerings to the idols."
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