2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\c 8
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 "Place a trumpet at your lips.
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2016-09-15 19:49:34 +00:00
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\q An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh.
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2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\q This is happening because the people have broken my covenant
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\q and rebelled against my law.
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\q
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\v 2 They cry out to me,
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\q 'My God, we in Israel know you.'
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\q
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\v 3 But Israel has rejected what is good,
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\q and the enemy will pursue him.
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\q
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\v 4 They have set up kings,
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\q but not by me.
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\q They have made princes,
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\q but without my knowledge.
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\q With their silver and gold
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\q they have made idols for themselves,
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\q but it was only so they might be cut off."
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\q
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2016-08-16 13:49:24 +00:00
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\v 5 "He has thrown away your calf, Samaria."
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2016-09-15 20:15:31 +00:00
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\q "My anger is burning against these people.
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2016-09-15 20:06:12 +00:00
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\q For how long will they stay guilty?
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2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\q
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\v 6 For this idol came from Israel;
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\q a workman made it;
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\q it is not God!
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\q The calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
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\q
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\v 7 For the people sow the wind
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\q and reap the whirlwind.
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\q The standing grain has no heads;
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\q it yields no flour.
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\q If it does come to maturity,
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\q foreigners will devour it.
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\p
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\q
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\v 8 Israel is swallowed up;
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\q now they lie among the nations like something useless.
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\q
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\v 9 For they went up to Assyria
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\q like a wild donkey all alone.
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\q Ephraim has hired lovers for herself.
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\q
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\v 10 Even though they have hired lovers among the nations,
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\q I will now gather them together.
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\q They will begin to waste away
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\q because of the oppression of the king of princes.
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\p
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\q
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\v 11 For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings,
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\q but they have become altars for committing sins instead.
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\q
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\v 12 I could write down my law for them ten thousand times,
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\q but they would view it as something strange to them.
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\q
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\v 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
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\q they sacrifice meat and eat it,
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\q but I, Yahweh, do not accept them.
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\q Now I will call to mind their iniquity
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\q and punish their sins.
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\q They will return to Egypt.
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\q
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\v 14 Israel has forgotten me, his Maker,
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\q and has built palaces.
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\q Judah has fortified many cities,
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\q but I will send fire on his cities;
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\q it will destroy his fortresses.
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