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\id HOS Unlocked Literal Bible
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\h Hosea
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\toc1 The Book of Hosea
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\toc2 Hosea
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\toc3 Hos
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\mt Hosea
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\v 1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah,
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Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam
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son of Joash, king of Israel.
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\p
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\v 2 When Yahweh spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him,
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\q "Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute.
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\q2 She will have children who are the result of her prostitution.
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\q For the land is committing great prostitution
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\q2 by abandoning Yahweh."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 3 So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim,
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and she conceived and bore him a son.
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\v 4 Yahweh said to Hosea,
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\q "Call his name Jezreel.
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\q2 For in a little while
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\q I will punish the house of Jehu
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\q2 for the bloodshed at Jezreel,
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\q and I will put an end
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\q2 to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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\q
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\v 5 It will happen on the day
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\q2 that I break the bow of Israel
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\q in the Valley of Jezreel."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 6 Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. Then Yahweh said to Hosea,
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\q "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,
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\q2 for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
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\q that I should forgive them at all.
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\q2
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\v 7 Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah,
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\q and I will save them by myself, Yahweh their God.
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\q2 I will not save them
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\q by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 8 Now after Gomer had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore another son.
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\q
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\v 9 Then Yahweh said,
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\q2 "Call his name Lo-Ammi,
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\q for you are not my people,
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\q2 and I am not your God.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 Yet the number of the people of Israel
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\q2 will be like the sand of the seashore,
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\q which cannot be measured or counted.
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\q2 It will be that where it was said to them,
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\q 'You are not my people,'
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\q2 it will be said to them,
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\q 'You are people of the living God.'
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\q2
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\v 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel
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\q will be gathered together.
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\q2 They will appoint one leader for themselves,
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\q and they will go up from the land,
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\q2 for great will be the day of Jezreel.
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\s5
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\c 2
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\q
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\v 1 Say to your brothers, 'My people!'
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\q2 and to your sisters, 'You have been shown compassion.'"
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\s5
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\q
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\v2 Bring a lawsuit against your mother, bring a lawsuit,
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\q2 for she is not my wife,
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\q2 and neither am I her husband.
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\q Let her put away her prostitution from before herself,
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\q2 and her acts of adultery from between her breasts.
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\q
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\v 3 If not, I will strip her naked
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\q2 and show her nakedness as on the day that she was born.
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\q I will make her like the wilderness,
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\q2 like a parched land,
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\q and I will make her die from thirst.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 I will not have any mercy on her children,
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\q2 for they are children of prostitution.
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\q
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\v 5 For their mother has been a prostitute,
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\q2 and she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
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\q She said, "I will go after my lovers,
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\q2 for they give me my bread and water,
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\q my wool and flax,
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\q2 my oil and drink."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 Therefore I will build up a hedge to block her way with thorns.
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\q2 I will build up a wall against her
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\q2 so she cannot find her way.
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\q
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\v 7 She will pursue her lovers,
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\q2 but she will not overtake them.
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\q She will seek them,
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\q2 but she will not find them.
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\q Then she will say,
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\q2 "I will return to my first husband,
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\q2 for it was better for me then than it is now."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 For she had not known that it was I who gave her
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\q2 the grain, the new wine and the oil,
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\q and who lavished on her silver and gold,
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\q2 which they then used for Baal.
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\q
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\v 9 So I will take back her grain at harvest time,
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\q2 and my new wine in its season.
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\q I will take back my wool and flax
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\q2 that were used to cover her nakedness.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 Then I will strip her naked in the sight of her lovers,
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\q2 and no one will rescue her out of my hand.
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\q
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\v 11 I will stop all her rejoicing—
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\q2 her feasts, her new moon celebrations,
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\q2 her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 "I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
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\q2 of which she has said,
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\q 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.'
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\q2 I will make them a forest,
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\q2 and the animals of the field will eat them.
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\q
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\v 13 I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals,
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\q2 when she burned incense to them,
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\q when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry,
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\q2 and she went after her lovers and forgot me—
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\q this is Yahweh's declaration."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 So I am going to allure her.
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\q2 I will bring her into the wilderness
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\q2 and speak tenderly to her.
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\q
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\v 15 I will give her back her vineyards,
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\q2 and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
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\q She will answer me there as she did in the days of her youth,
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\q2 as in the days that she came out of the land of Egypt.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 16 "It will be in that day—
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\q2this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q that you will call me, 'My husband,'
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\q2 and you will no longer call me, 'My Baal.'
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\q
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\v 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth;
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\q2 their names will not be remembered anymore.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 On that day I will make a covenant for them
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\q2 with the beasts in the fields, with the birds in the sky,
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\q2 and with the crawling things on the ground.
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\q I will drive away the bow, the sword,
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\q2 and the battle from the land,
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\q and I will make you lie down in safety.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 19 I will promise to be your husband forever.
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\q2 I will promise to be your husband in righteousness, justice,
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\q2 covenant faithfulness, and mercy.
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\q
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\v 20 I will pledge myself to you in faithfulness,
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\q2 and you will know Yahweh.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 21 On that day,
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\q2 I will answer—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q I will answer the heavens,
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\q2 and they will answer the earth.
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\q
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\v 22 The earth will answer the grain,
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\q2 the new wine and the oil,
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\q and they will answer Jezreel.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 23 I will plant her for myself in the land,
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\q2 and I will have mercy on Lo-Ruhamah.
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\q I will say to Lo-Ammi, 'You are my people,'
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\q2 and they will say to me, 'You are my God.'"
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\s5
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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman, loved by her husband,
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but who is an adulteress. Love her just as I, Yahweh, love the people of Israel,
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although they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."
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\p
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\v 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley.
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\v 3 I said to her, "You must live with me many days. You will not be a prostitute
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or belong to any other man. In the same way, I will be with you."
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\s5
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\v 4 For the people of Israel will live for many days without a king, prince,
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sacrifice, stone pillar, ephod or household idols.
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\v 5 Afterward the people of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king,
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and in the last days, they will come trembling before Yahweh and his goodness.
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\s5
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\c 4
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Hear the word of Yahweh,
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\q2 you people of Israel.
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\q Yahweh has a lawsuit
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\q2 against the inhabitants of the land,
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\q because there is no truthfulness or covenant faithfulness,
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\q2 no knowledge of God in the land.
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\q
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\v 2 There is cursing, deception, killing,
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\q2 stealing and adultery.
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\q The people have broken all bounds,
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\q2 and bloodshed comes after bloodshed.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 So the land mourns,
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\q2 and everyone living in it is wasting away;
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\q the beasts in the fields and the birds in the sky,
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\q2 even the fish in the sea, are being taken away.
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\s5
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\p
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\v 4 But do not allow anyone to bring a lawsuit;
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\q2 do not let anyone accuse anyone else.
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\q2 For it is you, the priests, whom I am accusing.
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\q
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\v 5 You priests will stumble during the day;
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\q2 the prophets will also stumble with you by night,
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\q2 and I will destroy your mother.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 My people are being destroyed
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\q2 because of the lack of knowledge.
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\q Because you priests have rejected knowledge,
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\q2 I will also reject you as priests to me.
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\q Because you have forgotten my law,
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\q2 although I am your God,
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\q2 I also will forget your children.
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\q
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\v 7 The more the priests multiplied,
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\q2 the more they sinned against me.
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\q2 They exchanged their honor for shame.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 They feed on the sin of my people;
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\q2 they are greedy for more of their iniquity.
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\q
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\v 9 It will be the same for the people as for the priests:
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\q2 I will punish them all for their practices;
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\q2 I will repay them for their deeds.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 They will eat but not have enough;
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\q2 they will commit prostitution but not increase,
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\q2 because they stopped listening to Yahweh.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine
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\q2 take away understanding.
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\q
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\v 12 My people consult their wooden idols,
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\q2 and their walking sticks give them prophecies.
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\q A spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
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\q2 and they have acted as prostitutes
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\q2 instead of being faithful to their God.
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\q
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\v 13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
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\q2 and burn incense on the hills,
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\q under oaks, poplars and terebinths,
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\q2 because the shade is good.
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\q So your daughters commit sexual immorality,
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\q2 and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
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\q
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\v 14 I will not punish your daughters
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\q2 when they choose to commit sexual immorality,
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\q nor your daughters-in-law
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\q2 when they commit adultery.
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\q For the men also go apart with prostitutes,
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\q2 and they offer sacrifices
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\q2 so they can commit immoral acts with sacred prostitutes.
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\q So this people who does not understand will be thrown down.
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\q
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\v 15 Though you, Israel, have committed adultery,
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\q2 may Judah not become guilty.
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\q Do not go to Gilgal, you people;
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\q2 do not go up to Beth Aven,
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\q and do not swear, saying, "As Yahweh lives."
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\q
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\v 16 For Israel has behaved stubbornly,
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\q2 like a stubborn heifer.
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\q How can Yahweh bring them to pasture
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\q2 like lambs in a meadow?
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\q
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\v 17 Ephraim united himself with idols;
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\q2 leave him alone.
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\q
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\v 18 Even when their strong drink is gone,
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\q2 they continue to commit adultery;
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\q2 her rulers dearly love their shame.
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\q
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\v 19 The wind will wrap her up in its wings;
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\q2 and they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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\s5
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\c 5
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 "Hear this, priests!
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\q2 Pay attention, house of Israel!
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\q Listen, house of the king!
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\q2 For judgment is coming against you all.
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\q You have been a snare at Mizpah
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\q2 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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\q2 but I will punish all of them. \f + \ft Some modern translations have \fqa The rebels have dug a deep pit \fqa* , \fqa The rebels have dug deep at Shittim \fqa* , or, continuing on from the previous verse, \fqa a pit dug deep at Shittim \fqa* . \f*
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\q
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\v 3 I know Ephraim,
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\q2 and Israel is not hidden from me.
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\q Ephraim, now you have become like a prostitute;
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\q2 Israel is defiled.
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\q
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\v 4 Their deeds will not allow them
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\q2 to turn to God,
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\q for the mind of prostitution is in them,
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\q2 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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\q2 so Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt;
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\q2 and Judah also will stumble with them.
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\q
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\v 6 They will go with their flocks
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\q2 and herds to seek Yahweh,
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\q but they will not find him,
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\q2 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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\q2 for they have borne illegitimate children.
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\q Now the new moon festivals
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\q2 will devour them with their fields.
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\q
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\v 8 Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah,
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\q2 and the trumpet in Ramah.
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\q Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven:
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\q2 'We will follow you, Benjamin!'
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\q
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\v 9 Ephraim will become a desolation
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\q2 on the day of rebuke.
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\q Among the tribes of Israel
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\q2 I have declared what is certain to happen.
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\q
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\v 10 The leaders of Judah
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\q2 are like those who move a boundary stone.
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\q2 I will pour my wrath on them like water.
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\q
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\v 11 Ephraim is oppressed;
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\q2 he is crushed in judgment,
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\q2 because he has willingly walked after idols.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 So I will be like a moth to Ephraim,
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\q2 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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\q2 and Judah saw his wound,
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\q then Ephraim went to Assyria,
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\q2 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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\q2 or heal your wound.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 So I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
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\q2 and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
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\q I, even I, will tear them apart and go away;
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\q2 I will carry them off,
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\q2 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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\q2 until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
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\q2 until they earnestly seek me in their distress."
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\s5
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\c 6
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 "Come, let us return to Yahweh.
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\q2 For he has torn us apart, but he will heal us;
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\q2 he has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds.
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\q
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\v 2 After two days he will revive us;
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\q2 he will raise us up on the third day,
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\q2 and we will live before him.
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\q
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\v 3 Let us know Yahweh;
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\q2 let us press on to know Yahweh.
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\q His coming out is as sure as the dawn;
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\q2 he will come to us like the showers,
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\q2 like the spring rains that water the land."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 Ephraim, what will I do with you?
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\q2 Judah, what will I do with you?
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\q Your love is like a morning cloud,
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\q2 like the dew that goes away early.
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\q
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\v 5 So I have cut them to pieces by the prophets;
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\q2 I have killed them with the words of my mouth.
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\q2 Your judgments are like the light that shines out.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 For I delight in covenant faithfulness and not sacrifice,
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\q2 and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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\q
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\v 7 Like Adam they have broken the covenant;
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\q2 they were unfaithful to me.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Gilead is a city of those who do evil,
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\q2 with footprints of blood.
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\q
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\v 9 As gangs of robbers wait for someone,
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\q2 so the priests band together
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\q2 to commit murder on the way to Shechem;
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\q they have committed shameful crimes.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
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\q2 Ephraim's prostitution is there,
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\q2 and Israel has become unclean.
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\q
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\v 11 For you also, Judah, a harvest has been appointed,
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\q2 when I will reverse the captivity of my people.
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\s5
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\c 7
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Whenever I want to heal Israel,
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\q2 the iniquity of Ephraim is exposed,
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\q2 as well as the evil deeds of Samaria,
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\q for they practice deceit;
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\q2 a thief comes in,
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\q2 and a marauding band attacks in the street.
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\q
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\v 2 They do not realize in their hearts
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\q2 that I remember all their evil deeds.
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\q Now their deeds surround them;
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\q2 they are before my face.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 With their evil they make the king glad,
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\q2 and by their lies the officials.
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\q
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\v 4 They are all adulterers,
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\q2 like an oven heated by the baker,
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\q2 who ceases to stir the fire
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\q from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
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\q
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\v 5 On the day of our king
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\q2 the officials made themselves sick
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\q2with the heat of wine.
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\q He reached out with his hand
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\q2 to those who were mocking.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 For with hearts like an oven,
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\q2 they devise their deceitful plans.
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\q Their anger smolders all night;
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\q2 in the morning it burns high like a flaming fire.
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\q
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\v 7 They all are as hot as an oven,
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\q2 and they devour those who rule over them.
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\q All their kings have fallen;
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\q2 none of them calls on me.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples.
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\q2 Ephraim is a flat cake that has not been turned over.
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\q
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\v 9 Foreigners have devoured his strength,
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\q2 but he does not know it.
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\q Gray hairs are sprinkled on him,
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\q2 but he does not know it.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 The pride of Israel testifies against him;
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\q2 however, they have not returned to Yahweh their God,
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\q2 nor have they sought him, in spite of all this.
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\q
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\v 11 Ephraim is like a dove,
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\q2 gullible and without sense,
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\q calling out to Egypt,
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\q2 then flying to Assyria.
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\s5
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\v 12 When they go,
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\q2 I will spread my net over them;
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\q I will bring them down
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\q2 like the birds of the sky.
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\q I will punish them
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\q2 in their flocking together.
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\q
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\v 13 Woe to them!
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\q2 For they have strayed from me.
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\q Devastation is coming to them!
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\q2 They have rebelled against me!
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\q I would have rescued them,
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\q2 but they spoke lies against me.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 They have not cried to me with all their heart,
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\q2 but they wail on their beds.
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\q They gather together for grain and new wine,
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\q2 and they turn away from me. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa They gather together \fqa* , which the copies of the ancient Hebrew text have, some ancient translations of the copies of the Hebrew text, and many modern translations have \fqa They cut themselves \fqa* , an allusion to the pagan custom of idol worshipers wounding themselves in the frenzy of prayer. \f*
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\q
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\v 15 Though I trained them and strengthened their arms,
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\q2 they are now plotting evil against me.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 16 They return,
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\q2 but they do not return to me, the Most High.
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\q They are like a slack bow.
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\q Their officials will fall by the sword
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\q2 because of the insolence of their tongues.
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\q This will become their mockery in the land of Egypt.
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\s5
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\c 8
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 "Place a ram's horn at your lips!
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\q An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh
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\q2 because the people have broken my covenant
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\q2 and rebelled against my law.
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\q
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\v 2 They cry out to me,
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\q2 'My God, we in Israel know you.'
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\q
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\v 3 But Israel has rejected what is good,
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\q2 and the enemy will pursue him.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 They have set up kings,
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\q2 but not by me.
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\q They have made princes,
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\q2 but without my knowledge.
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\q With their silver and gold
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\q2 they have made idols for themselves,
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\q2 but it was only so they might be cut off."
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\q
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\v 5 "Your calf has been rejected, Samaria.
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\q2 My anger is burning against these people.
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\q2 For how long will they be incapable of innocence?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 For this idol came from Israel;
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\q2 a workman made it;
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\q2 it is not God!
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\q The calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
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\q
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\v 7 For the people sow the wind
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\q2 and reap the whirlwind.
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\q The standing grain has no heads;
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\q2 it yields no flour.
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\q If it does come to maturity,
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\q2 foreigners will devour it.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Israel is swallowed up;
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\q2 now they lie among the nations
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\q2 like a useless pot.
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\q
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\v 9 For they went up to Assyria
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\q2 like a wild donkey all alone.
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\q Ephraim has hired lovers for herself.
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\q
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\v 10 Even though they have hired lovers among the nations,
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\q2 I will now gather them together.
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\q They will begin to waste away
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\q2 because of the burden of the king of princes.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings,
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\q2 but they have become altars for committing sins.
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\q
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\v 12 I could write down my law for them ten thousand times,
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\q2 but they would view it as something strange to them.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
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\q2 they sacrifice meat and eat it,
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\q2 but I, Yahweh, do not accept them.
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\q Now I will think about their iniquity
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\q2 and punish their sins.
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\q They will return to Egypt.
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\q
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\v 14 Israel has forgotten me, his Maker,
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\q2 and has built palaces.
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\q Judah has fortified many cities,
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\q2 but I will send fire on his cities;
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\q2 it will destroy his fortresses.
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\s5
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\c 9
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Do not rejoice, Israel,
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\q2 with joy like the other peoples.
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\q For you have been unfaithful,
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\q2 abandoning your God.
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\q You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires
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\q2 on all the floors for threshing grain.
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\q
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\v 2 But the threshing floor and the winepress
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\q2 will not feed them;
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\q2 the new wine will fail them.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 They will not continue to live in Yahweh's land;
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\q2 instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,
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\q2 and one day they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
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\q
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\v 4 They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh,
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\q2 neither will they be pleasing to him.
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\q Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food:
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\q2 all who eat it will be defiled.
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\q For their food will be for themselves only;
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\q2 it will not come into the house of Yahweh.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 What will you do on the day of an appointed festival,
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\q2 on the day of a festival for Yahweh?
|
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\q
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\v 6 For, look, if they escape from destruction,
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\q2 Egypt will gather them,
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\q2 and Memphis will bury them.
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\q As for their precious things of silver—
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\q2 sharp briers will possess them,
|
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\q2 and thorns will fill their tents.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 The days for punishment are coming;
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\q2 the days for retribution are coming.
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\q Let all Israel know these things.
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\q The prophet is a fool,
|
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\q2 and the inspired man is insane,
|
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\q because of your abundant iniquity
|
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\q2 and great hostility.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 The prophet is the watchman
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\q2 for my God over Ephraim.
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\q But a bird snare is on all of his paths,
|
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\q2 and hostility toward him is in the house of his God.
|
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\q
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\v 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves
|
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\q2 as in the days of Gibeah.
|
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\q God will call to mind their iniquity,
|
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\q2 and he will punish their sins.
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 10 Yahweh says, "When I found Israel,
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\q2 it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.
|
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\q Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree
|
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\q2, I found your fathers.
|
|
\q But they went to Baal Peor,
|
|
\q2 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol.
|
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\q They became as detestable as the idol they loved.
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 11 As for Ephraim,
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\q2 their glory will fly away like a bird.
|
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\q There will be no birth,
|
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\q2 no pregnancy, and no conception.
|
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\q
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\v 12 Though they have brought up children,
|
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\q2 I will bereave all of them.
|
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\q Woe to them when I turn away from them!
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 13 I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre,
|
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\q2 planted in a meadow,
|
|
\q but Ephraim will bring out his children
|
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\q2 to someone who will slaughter them."
|
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\q
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\v 14 Give them, Yahweh—
|
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\q2 what will you give them?
|
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\q Give them a miscarrying womb
|
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\q2 and breasts that give no milk.
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 15 "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
|
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\q2 that is where I began to hate them.
|
|
\q Because of their sinful deeds,
|
|
\q2 I will drive them out of my house.
|
|
\q I will love them no more;
|
|
\q2 all their officials are rebels.
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 16 Ephraim is diseased,
|
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\q2 and their root is dried up;
|
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\q2 they bear no fruit.
|
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\q Even if they have children,
|
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\q2 I will put the precious ones of their womb to death."
|
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\q
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\v 17 My God will reject them
|
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\q2 because they have not obeyed him.
|
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\q They will become wanderers
|
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\q2 among the nations.
|
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|
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\s5
|
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\c 10
|
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\m
|
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\q
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\v 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit.
|
|
\q As his fruit increased,
|
|
\q the more altars he built.
|
|
\q As his land produced more,
|
|
\q he improved his pillars.
|
|
\q
|
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\v 2 Their heart is deceitful;
|
|
\q now they must bear their guilt.
|
|
\q Yahweh will demolish their altars;
|
|
\q he will destroy their pillars.
|
|
|
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\s5
|
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\q
|
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\v 3 For then they will say,
|
|
\q "We have no king,
|
|
\q for we did not fear Yahweh,
|
|
\q and a king—what could he do for us?"
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 4 They speak empty words
|
|
\q and make covenants by swearing falsely.
|
|
\q So justice springs up
|
|
\q like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid
|
|
\q because of the calves of Beth Aven.
|
|
\q Its people mourned over them,
|
|
\q as did those idolatrous priests who had rejoiced over them
|
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\q and their splendor,
|
|
\q but they are no longer there.
|
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\q
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\v 6 They will be carried to Assyria
|
|
\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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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 7 Samaria's king
|
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\q will be destroyed,
|
|
\q like a chip of wood on the surface of the water.
|
|
\q
|
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\v 8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed.
|
|
\q This is the sin of Israel!
|
|
\q Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.
|
|
\q The people will say to the mountains, "Cover us!"
|
|
\q and to the hills, "Fall on us!"
|
|
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|
\s5
|
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\q
|
|
\v 9 "Israel,
|
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\q you have sinned since the days of Gibeah;
|
|
\q there you have remained.
|
|
\q Will not war overtake the sons of wrong in Gibeah?
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
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\q
|
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\v 10 When I desire it, I will discipline them.
|
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\q The peoples will gather together against them
|
|
\q and put them in bonds for their double iniquity.
|
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\q
|
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\v 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh the grain,
|
|
\q so I will put a yoke on her fair neck.
|
|
\q I will put a yoke on Ephraim;
|
|
\q Judah will plow;
|
|
\q Jacob will pull the harrow by himself.
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 12 Sow righteousness for yourselves,
|
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\q and reap the fruit of covenant faithfulness.
|
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\q Break up your unplowed ground,
|
|
\q for it is time to seek Yahweh,
|
|
\q until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
|
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\q
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\v 13 You have plowed wickedness;
|
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\q you reaped injustice.
|
|
\q You have eaten the fruit of deception
|
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\q because you trusted in your plans
|
|
\q and in your many soldiers.
|
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|
\s5
|
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\q
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\v 14 So a tumult of war will rise among your people,
|
|
\q and all your fortified cities will be destroyed.
|
|
\q It will be as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel on a day of battle,
|
|
\q when mothers were dashed to pieces with their children.
|
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\q
|
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\v 15 So it will happen to you, Bethel,
|
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\q because of your great wickedness.
|
|
\q At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off."
|
|
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\s5
|
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\c 11
|
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\m
|
|
\q
|
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\v 1 "When Israel was a young man I loved him,
|
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\q and I called my son out of Egypt.
|
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\q
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\v 2 The more they were called,
|
|
\q the more they went away from me.
|
|
\q They sacrificed to the Baals
|
|
\q and burned incense to idols. \f + \ft Some ancient translations of the Hebrew text and most modern translations have \fqa they went away from me \fqa* . The copies of the ancient Hebrew text have \fqa they went away from them \fqa* . \f*
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk.
|
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\q It was I who lifted them up by their arms,
|
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\q but they did not know that I healed them.
|
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\q
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\v 4 I led them with cords of humanity,
|
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\q with bands of love.
|
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\q I was to them like someone who eased the yoke on their jaws,
|
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\q and I bent down to them and fed them.
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 5 Will they not return to the land of Egypt?
|
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\q Will Assyria not rule over them
|
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\q because they refuse to return to me?
|
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\q
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\v 6 The sword will fall on their cities
|
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\q and destroy the bars of their gates;
|
|
\q it will destroy them
|
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\q because of their own plans.
|
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\q
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\v 7 My people are determined to turn away from me.
|
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\q Though they call to the Most High,
|
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\q no one will help them.
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim?
|
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\q How can I hand you over, Israel?
|
|
\q How can I make you like Admah?
|
|
\q How can I make you like Zeboyim?
|
|
\q My heart has changed within me;
|
|
\q all my compassions have been stirred up.
|
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\q
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\v 9 I will not execute my fierce anger;
|
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\q I will not again destroy Ephraim.
|
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\q For I am God
|
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\q and not a man;
|
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\q I am the Holy One among you,
|
|
\q and I will not come in wrath.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 They will follow Yahweh;
|
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\q and he will roar like a lion.
|
|
\q When he roars,
|
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\q his children will come trembling from the west.
|
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\q
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\v 11 They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt,
|
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\q like a dove from the land of Assyria.
|
|
\q I will make them live in their homes—this is the declaration of Yahweh.
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
|
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\q and the house of Israel with deceit.
|
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\q But Judah is still going about with God
|
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\q and is faithful to the Holy One."
|
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\s5
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\c 12
|
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\q
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\v 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind
|
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\q and follows after the east wind.
|
|
\q He continually multiplies lies and violence.
|
|
\q They make a covenant with Assyria
|
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\q and carry olive oil to Egypt.
|
|
\q
|
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\v 2 Yahweh also has a lawsuit against Judah
|
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\q and will punish Jacob for what he has done;
|
|
\q he will repay him for his deeds.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 In the womb Jacob grasped his brother by the heel,
|
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\q and in his manhood he struggled with God.
|
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\q
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\v 4 He struggled with the angel and won.
|
|
\q He wept and begged for his favor.
|
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\q He met God at Bethel;
|
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\q there God spoke with him.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 This is Yahweh, the God of hosts;
|
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\q "Yahweh" is his name to be called on.
|
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\q
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\v 6 So turn to your God.
|
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\q Keep covenant faithfulness and justice,
|
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\q and wait continually for your God.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 The merchants have deceitful scales in their hands;
|
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\q they love to defraud.
|
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\q
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\v 8 Ephraim said, "I have certainly become very rich;
|
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\q I have found wealth for myself.
|
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\q In all my labors they will not find any iniquity in me,
|
|
\q anything that would be sin."
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 9 "I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.
|
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\q I will again make you live in tents,
|
|
\q as in the days of the appointed festival.
|
|
\q
|
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\v 10 I spoke to the prophets,
|
|
\q and I gave them many visions for you.
|
|
\q By the hand of the prophets I gave parables."
|
|
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\s5
|
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\q
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\v 11 If there is wickedness in Gilead,
|
|
\q surely the people are worthless.
|
|
\q In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
|
|
\q their altars will be like heaps of stone in the furrows of the fields.
|
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\q
|
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\v 12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
|
|
\q Israel labored in order to get a wife;
|
|
\q and he kept flocks of sheep to get a wife.
|
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet,
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\q and by a prophet he took care of them.
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\q
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\v 14 Ephraim has bitterly angered Yahweh.
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\q So his Lord will leave his blood on him
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\q and will turn back on him his disgrace.
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\s5
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\c 13
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\m
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\q
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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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\s5
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\q
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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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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 But I am Yahweh your God from 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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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 I will become like a lion to them;
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\q like a leopard I will watch along the path.
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\q
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\v 8 I will attack them as 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 as a lion,
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\q as a wild beast would tear them to pieces.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 I will destroy you, Israel;
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\q who will be able to help you?
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\q
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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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\q
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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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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 Ephraim's iniquity has been bound up;
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\q his sin has been stored up.
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\q
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\v 13 Pains of childbirth will come on him,
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\q but he is not a wise 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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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Will I rescue them from the hand of Sheol?
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\q Will I rescue them from death?
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\q Where, death, are your plagues?
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\q Where, Sheol, is your destruction?
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\q Compassion is hidden from my eyes."
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\s5
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\q
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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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\s5
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\q
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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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\s5
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\c 14
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
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\q for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
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\q
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\v 2 Take with you words and return to Yahweh.
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\q Say to him, "Take away all our iniquity
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\q and accept what is good,
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\q so that we may offer to you the fruit of our lips. \f + \ft The phrase \fqa so that we may offer to you the fruit of our lips \fqa* represents the interpretation of some ancient translations of the Hebrew text. The copies of the ancient Hebrew text have \fqa so that we may offer bulls, our lips \fqa* . Some modern translations interpret this to mean, \fqa so that we may offer to you bulls, which we have promised to do \fqa* . \f*
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 Assyria will not save us;
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\q we will not ride on horses to war.
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\q Neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands,
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\q 'You are our gods,'
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\q for in you the orphan finds compassion."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 "I will heal their apostasy;
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\q I will love them freely,
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\q for my anger has turned away from him.
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\q
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\v 5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
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\q he will blossom like the lily
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\q and take root like a cedar in Lebanon.
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\q
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\v 6 His branches will spread out;
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\q his beauty will be like the olive trees,
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\q and his fragrance like the cedars in Lebanon.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 The people who live in his shade will return;
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\q they will revive like grain
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\q and blossom like vines.
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\q His fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.
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\q
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\v 8 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
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\q I will answer him and care for him.
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\q I am like a cypress whose leaves are always green;
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\q from me comes your fruit."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 Who is wise that he may understand these things?
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\q Who understands these things so that he may know them?
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\q For the ways of Yahweh are right,
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\q and the righteous will walk in them,
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\q but the rebellious will stumble in them.
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