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\c 9
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\q1
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\v 1 Hosea says this: Do not be happy, O Israel; do not celebrate like other people groups!
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\q2 You have been unfaithful to your God. You have refused to do what he told you.
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\q1 At every place where people thresh their grain,
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\q2 you give your offerings and sacrifices to idols.
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\q1 You are just like men who pay money to sleep with women.
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\q1
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\v 2 Now you will not have enough grain or wine to feed your people.
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\q2 You will have no hope for any new wine, for the vines will fail you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 The people of Israel will not continue to live in the land that Yahweh has chosen as his own.
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\q2 Instead, they will go back to Egypt one day.
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\q1 And in Assyria they will have to eat the kind of food that God had forbidden them to eat.
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\q1
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\v 4 No longer will they pour out wine to offer it to Yahweh;
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\q2 their sacrifices will not please him at all.
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\q2 Their sacrifices will be as unacceptable to God as the food that people eat at funerals;
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\q1 and everyone who eats that food becomes unacceptable to God.
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\q1 That food will be all they eat;
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\q2 they will not be able to bring it into Yahweh's house to offer it to him.
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\q1
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\v 5 There, in a country far from your home, you will not be able to celebrate the festivals that Yahweh commanded you to celebrate.
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\q1
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\v 6 Look! If you escape and the Assyrians do not kill you,
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\q2 the army of Egypt will capture you.
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\q2 You will die there, and the people in the city of Memphis will bury you.
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\q1 All your wealth in silver will become like the wilderness,
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\q2 and your houses, also.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 It is now the time for God to punish you;
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\q2 the time has come in which God will pay you back for every sin you have committed.
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\q2 And all you people of Israel must realize that these things will happen.
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\q1 So your false prophets are fools,
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\q2 and those who you thought were inspired by God are actually insane.
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\q1 This is because you have sinned so much
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\q2 and because you have become Yahweh's enemies.
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\q1
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\v 8 True prophets are watchmen for the people of Israel, and my God is with them.
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\q2 But everywhere they go, others set traps for them;
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\q2 even in the temple of their God, others hate them.
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\q1
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\v 9 The people have polluted themselves by sinning
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\q2 as the Israelites did at Gibeah long ago.
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\q1 God will not forget the wicked things they did;
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\q2 he will certainly punish them.
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\v 10 Yahweh says, "When I found Israel, it was like someone finding grapes growing in the wilderness.
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\q1 When I saw your ancestors, they were like the very first figs that appear in the year, figs growing on a young fig tree.
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\q1 But when they came to Mount Peor,
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\q2 they gave themselves completely to that disgusting idol Baal,
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\q2 and they became as detestable as the idol they loved.
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\q1
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\v 11 The honor of Ephraim is like a bird that is flying away.
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\q1 I will make their women so they cannot give birth, no woman will be pregnant, and no one will even conceive a child in the womb.
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\q1
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\v 12 Even if they raise children not their own,
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\q2 I will take them from their mothers.
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\q1 It will be the worst that could happen to them,
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\q2 when I abandon them!
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\q1
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\v 13 I have seen the people of Israel;
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\q2 they were like Tyre; they were like a tree planted in a beautiful meadow.
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\q1 But they will have to lead their own children out to their enemies, who will slaughter them."
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\b
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\q1
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\v 14 Hosea says, Yahweh, give them—
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\q2 what should you give them?
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\q1 Give them wombs that miscarry,
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\q2 and let their mothers' breasts have no milk for their babies.
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\q1
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\v 15 Yahweh says, "Because of all the wicked things my people did at Gilgal,
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\q2 that is where I started to hate them.
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\q1 And because of all the sinful deeds they have done,
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\q2 I will drive them out of the place they live.
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\q1 I will not love them any more;
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\q2 all their officials fight against me.
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\v 16 Ephraim is like a vine that has dried up
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\q2 and produces no fruit.
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\q1 Even if they give birth,
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\q2 I will put to death those children they love."
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\b
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\q1
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\v 17 Hosea says, My God rejected the people of Israel
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\q2 because they have not obeyed him,
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\q1 and they will wander from one nation to another.
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