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Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved hire upon every cornfloor. |
2
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The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. |
3
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They shall not dwell in the LORD-S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. |
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They shall not pour out wine {cf15i offerings} to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of the LORD. |
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What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? |
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For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, {cf15i yet} Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tents. |
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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great. |
8
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Ephraim {cf15i was} a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler-s snare is in all his ways, {cf15i and} enmity in the house of his God. |
9
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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. |
10
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. |
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As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. |
12
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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! |
13
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Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer. |
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Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
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All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house: I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. |
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Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. |
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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. |
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