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- Hear this, ye priests;
and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
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- And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
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- I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me;
for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.
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- Their doings do not allow them to return unto their God;
for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they know not Jehovah.
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- And Israel's pride doth testify to his face;
and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
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- They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah;
but they shall not find [him]: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
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- They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah;
for they havebegotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions.
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- Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah;
cry aloud [at] Beth-aven: behind thee, O Benjamin!
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- Ephraim shall be a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which is sure.
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- The princes of Judah are become like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
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- Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment [of man].
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- And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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- When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb;
but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore.
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- For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, I will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
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- I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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