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\c 5
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\q1
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\v 1 "Listen, you priests!
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\q2 Pay attention, you people of Israel!
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\q1 And you members of the king's family, you also need to listen!
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\q2 For I will punish all of you.
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\q1 The things you have done have been like a trap for the people at Mizpah.
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\q2 The things you have done have become like a net spread out to catch the people who live on Mount Tabor.
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\v 2 Those who rebelled against me have now killed so many that they are standing deep in their blood. I tell you that I will punish them all.
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\q1
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\v 3 You, the people in Ephraim, the center of Israel—I know you.
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\q2 I know very well what you are like, you people of Israel.
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\q1 You people in Ephraim, you have acted like prostitutes.
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\q2 Yes, you people in Israel are polluted.
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\q1
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\v 4 Ephraim and Israel are not able to ask me to forgive them, because of what they have done.
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\q1 They have chosen to be unfaithful and immoral,
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\q2 and they do not know me, Yahweh."
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\q1
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\v 5 Israel is proud; because of this others know how guilty she is.
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\q2 The sins that the people of Israel have committed are making them faithless to Yahweh.
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\q2 Judah is becoming faithless, too.
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\q1
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\v 6 They are hoping to persuade Yahweh to have mercy on them.
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\q2 They are coming to sacrifice sheep and cattle to him from their flocks and herds.
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\q1 But they will find that Yahweh will have no mercy on them
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\q2 because he has stopped helping them; he is leaving them alone.
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\q1
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\v 7 They did not keep their promises to Yahweh.
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\q2 and they have had children by foreign women.
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\q1 So at the time of the new moon festivals,
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\q2 they will perish, together with their cultivated fields."
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\q1
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\v 8 Yahweh says, "Blow the ram horns at the city of Gibeah!
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\q2 Blow the trumpets at the city of Ramah!
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\q1 Shout a battle cry at the city of Beth Aven!
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\q2 Lead us into battle, you people of the tribe of Benjamin!
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\q1
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\v 9 I will punish the people of Ephraim and turn their city into a pile of rubble.
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\q2 This is my promise to the tribes of Israel—I pledge to you all that I will do this.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 The leaders of Judah are as bad as people who steal farmland by moving boundary markers;
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\q2 they steal land that does not belong to them.
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\q1 I will punish them in a way that will make them perish.
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\q1
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\v 11 Ephraim will suffer greatly; the people will perish when I punish them,
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\q2 because they were determined to worship idols.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 I will destroy Ephraim as a moth destroys wool;
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\q2 I will destroy Judah as rot destroys wood.
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\q1
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\v 13 When the people of Ephraim realized how weak they were,
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\q2 then they asked the people of Assyria for help.
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\q1 When the people of Judah realized how weak they were,
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\q2 they sent messengers to the great king of Assyria.
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\q2 But he could not help you people;
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\q1 he could not make you people strong again.
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\q1
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\v 14 I will become like a lion to the people of Ephraim in Israel;
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\q2 I will become like a young lion to the people of Judah.
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\q1 I will destroy them and leave them;
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\q1 I will carry them far away,
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\q2 and no one will be able to rescue them.
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\q1
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\v 15 Then I will go back to where I came from;
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\q2 from there I will wait for them to admit that they have sinned;
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\q1 I will wait for them to come and ask me to help them."
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