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 \q
 \v 5 "Your calf has been rejected, Samaria.
 \q My anger is burning against these people.
-\q For how long will they stay guilty?
+\q For how long will they be incapable of innocence?
 
 \s5
 \q
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 \s5
 \q
 \v 8 Israel is swallowed up;
-\q now they lie among the nations like something useless.
+\q now they lie among the nations like a useless pot.
 \q
 \v 9 For they went up to Assyria
 \q like a wild donkey all alone.
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 \v 10 Even though they have hired lovers among the nations,
 \q I will now gather them together.
 \q They will begin to waste away
-\q because of the oppression of the king of princes.
+\q because of the burden of the king of princes.
 
 \s5
 \q
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 \q For you have been unfaithful,
 \q forsaking your God.
 \q You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires
-\q on all the threshing floors.
+\q on all the floors for threshing grain.
 \q
 \v 2 But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them;
 \q the new wine will fail them.
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@
 \v 6 For, look, if they escape from destruction,
 \q Egypt will gather them,
 \q and Memphis will bury them.
-\q As for their treasures of silver—
+\q As for their precious things of silver—
 \q sharp briers will possess them,
 \q and thorns will fill their tents.
 
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 \q Let all Israel know these things.
 \q The prophet is a fool,
 \q and the inspired man is insane,
-\q because of your great iniquity
+\q because of your abundant iniquity
 \q and great hostility.
 
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@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
 \q There will be no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
 \q
 \v 12 Though they have brought up children,
-\q I will take them away so that none of them is left.
+\q I will bereave all of them.
 \q Woe to them when I turn away from them!
 
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 \q and their root is dried up;
 \q they bear no fruit.
 \q Even if they have children,
-\q I will put their beloved children to death."
+\q I will put the precious ones of their womb to death."
 \q
 \v 17 My God will reject them
 \q because they have not obeyed him.
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 \q but they are no longer there.
 \q
 \v 6 They will be carried to Assyria
-\q as a present for the great king.
+\q as tribute for the great king.
 \q Ephraim will be disgraced,
 \q and Israel will be ashamed of its idol.
 
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 \q
 \v 10 When I desire it, I will discipline them.
-\q The nations will gather together against them
+\q The peoples will gather together against them
 \q and put them in bonds for their double iniquity.
 \q
 \v 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh the grain,
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 \q
 \v 15 So it will happen to you, Bethel,
 \q because of your great wickedness.
-\q At daybreak the king of Israel will be completely cut off."
+\q At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off."
 
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