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\c 8
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\q1
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\v 1 Yahweh says, "Get a trumpet and blow it.
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\q2 There are enemies swooping down over my people,
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\q1 as an eagle swoops down over a victim.
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\q2 This is because my people have left my covenant with them
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\q1 and have violated the law I gave them.
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\q1
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\v 2 My people Israel cry out to me and say,
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\q2 'Our God, we are loyal to you!'
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\q1
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\v 3 But the people of Israel have thrown away what is good,
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\q2 so their enemies will chase after them.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Israel has appointed kings for themselves,
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\q2 but they did not consult with me about it.
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\q1 They chose their own kings
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\q2 without asking me to approve them.
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\q1 They took their silver and gold and formed them into the idols they worshiped,
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\q2 but the people will perish as a result."
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\v 5 The prophet says, "Yes, Yahweh has rejected your idol, you people of Samaria—an idol made in the form of a calf!"
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\q1 Yahweh says, "Perhaps these people will never again be innocent of evildoing. I am very angry with them!
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\q2
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\v 6 The shame of it is that this idol came from Israel! A craftsman made it.
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\q1 It is only an idol; it cannot be the true and living God!
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\q2 I will ensure that someone will smash it to bits.
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\q1
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\v 7 This is because these people do useless things, so something terrible will destroy them.
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\q2 Their grain standing in the fields will give no harvest.
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\q1 And even if it does, foreign soldiers will eat everything it produces.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 Other nations have destroyed Israel's power.
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\q2 Now Israel is like an old, broken pot that no one wants.
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\q1
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\v 9 They asked the king of Assyria for help;
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\q2 they were like a wild donkey wandering off by itself.
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\q1 The people of Israel have tried to pay other nations to protect them.
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\q1
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\v 10 Although they do this,
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\q2 I will soon gather them up to destroy them.
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\q2 They will begin to become poor because they will have to pay money to Assyria's king.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 11 The people of Ephraim have built many altars on which to offer sacrifices for their sins;
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\q2 however, these altars have become places where the people commit terrible sins against me.
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\q1
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\v 12 Even if I wrote out for the people of Israel my laws ten thousand times,
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\q2 they would refuse to obey them.
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\q1 They would say they had never heard of them.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 13 Let us think about the sacrifices that they give to me.
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\q2 They sacrifice the meat and then they eat it;
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\q1 but I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices.
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\q2 I will think about their sins and will punish the people for them.
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\q1 I will make them go back to Egypt.
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\q1
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\v 14 And why has this happened?
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\q2 The people of Israel have forgotten me, the God who made them a nation. Instead of honoring me, they have built huge homes to live in.
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\q1 And instead of worshiping Yahweh, the people of Judah have built walls around their cities for protection.
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\q2 So this is what I, Yahweh, will do:
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\q1 I will send a fire that will destroy all their palaces and all their fortified cities."
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