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\c 7
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\q
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\v 1 Whenever I want to heal Israel,
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\q the sin of Ephraim is exposed,
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\q as well as the evil deeds of Samaria,
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\q for they practice deceit;
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\q a thief comes in,
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\q 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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\q that I remember all their evil deeds.
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\q Now their deeds surround them;
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\q they are before my face.
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\q
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\v 3 With their evil they make the king glad,
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\q 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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\q like an oven heated by the baker,
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\q 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 the officials made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
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\q He reached out with his hand to those who were mocking.
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\q
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\v 6 For with hearts like an oven,
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\q they devise their deceitful plans.
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\q Their anger smolders all night;
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\q 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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\q and they devour those who rule over them.
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\q All their kings have fallen;
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\q none of them calls on me.
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\b
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\q
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\v 8 Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples.
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\q 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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\q but he does not know it.
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\q Gray hairs are sprinkled on him,
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\q but he does not know it.
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\q
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\v 10 The pride of Israel testifies against him;
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\q however, they have not returned to Yahweh their God,
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\q 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, gullible and without sense,
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\q calling out to Egypt,
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\q then flying to Assyria.
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\v 12 When they go, I will spread my net over them,
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\q I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
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\q I will punish them
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\q in their flocking together.
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\q
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\v 13 Woe to them!
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\q For they have strayed from me.
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\q Devastation is coming to them!
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\q They have rebelled against me!
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\q I would have rescued them,
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\q but they spoke lies against me.
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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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\q but they wail on their beds.
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\q They gather together for grain and new wine,
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\q and they turn away from me.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa They gather together \fqa* , which the Hebrew text has, some ancient copies and many modern versions 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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\q they are now plotting evil against me.
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\q
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\v 16 They return,
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\q 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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\q 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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