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\c 7
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\q1
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\v 1 As often as I try to heal Israel,
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\q2 the people openly show that they are sinning,
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\q1 and the people in the city of Samaria show the same thing.
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\q2 They lie and cheat in their buying and selling;
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\q1 they are like lawless men who attack people who are walking in the streets.
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\q1
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\v 2 But they do not take a moment to think that I, Yahweh, see everything they do.
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\q2 Everywhere they go, they commit evil,
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\q1 and I see it all.
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\b
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 The wicked things they do bring delight to their king,
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\q2 and the king's officials are happy when they tell lies.
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\q1
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\v 4 They are all sexually immoral;
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\q2 they burn with lust like a baker's oven that is burning hot;
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\q1 once he lights the fire, he does not need to put any more wood on it,
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\q1 until he is ready to bake the bread.
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\q1
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\v 5 At the king's festivals, his officials do outrageous things because they are drunk with wine,
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\q2 and the king joins in with them as they mock me.
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\q1
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\v 6 But these same officials then set about making plans to murder the king.
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\q2 They are quietly angry all night,
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\q1 and they are openly angry in the morning.
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\q1
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\v 7 All those officials become so angry at the king,
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\q2 that they kill all their rulers.
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\q1 In the end, all their kings were killed;
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\q2 not one of them called on me, Yahweh, to help."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 "Israel joins with other people groups,
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\q2 but all the people are like a flat cake that is only cooked on one side; they are weak.
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\q1
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\v 9 People who come from far away have taken away Israel's strength.
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\q2 The nation is gorwing very weak, like an old man whose hair is turning gray.
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\q1 But the nation does not know it is weak.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 10 Israel is so proud that everyone else sees it.
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\q2 Even so, they will not return to me—to Yahweh their God.
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\q1 They will not try to persuade me to have mercy on them, no matter what happens to them.
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\q1
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\v 11 Israel is like a foolish bird, a dove that anyone can easily deceive.
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\q2 He calls out first to Egypt, and then like a bird, he flies up to Assyria.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 But when they are on their way there,
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\q2 I will spread my net over them,
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\q2 I will bring them down as a hunter brings down birds from the air into a net.
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\q1 I will punish them all together.
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\q1
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\v 13 How terrible it will be
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\q2 for my people, because they have abandoned me!
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\q1 They will perish
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\q2 because they have rebelled against me.
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\q1 I wanted to rescue them,
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\q2 but they kept telling lies against me.
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\q1
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\v 14 They do not cry out to me; they do not call to me from their hearts;
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\q2 they only lie on their beds and howl and cry out.
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\q1 They meet together to ask their idols for their grain and new wine.
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\q2 They have rebelled against me.
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\q1
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\v 15 Even though I trained them and helped them become strong,
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\q2 even now they are planning to do evil against me.
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\q1
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\v 16 They go this way and that, but never to me, God Most High.
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\q2 They are like a bow that cannot shoot.
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\q1 Their officers will be killed by their enemies' swords;
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they will die because they have insulted me.
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\q1 This is why the people in Egypt will insult them."
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