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\c 9
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Do not rejoice, Israel,
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\q with joy like the other peoples.
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\q For you have been unfaithful,
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\q forsaking your God.
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\q You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires
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\q on all the threshing floors.
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\q
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\v 2 But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them;
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\q the new wine will fail her.
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\q
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\v 3 They will not continue to live in Yahweh’s land;
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\q instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,
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\q and one day they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
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\q
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\v 4 They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh,
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\q neither will they be pleasing to him.
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\q Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food:
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\q all who eat it will be defiled.
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\q For their food will be for themselves only;
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\q it will not be able to come into the house of Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 5 What will you do on the day of an appointed festival,
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\q on the day of a festival for Yahweh?
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\q
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\v 6 For, look, if they escape from destruction,
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\q Egypt will gather them,
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\q and Memphis will bury them.
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\q Their treasures of silver—
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\q sharp briers will overtake them,
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\q and thorns will fill their tents.
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\q
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\v 7 The days for punishment are coming;
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\q the days for retribution are coming.
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\q Let all Israel know these things.
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\q The prophet is a fool,
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\q and the inspired man is insane,
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\q because of your great iniquity
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\q and great hostility.
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\q
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\v 8 The prophet who is with my God is the watchman for Ephraim,
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\q but a bird’s snare is on all of his paths,
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\q and hostility toward him is in the house of his God.
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\q
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\v 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves
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\q as in the days of Gibeah.
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\q God will call to mind their iniquity,
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\q and he will punish their sins.
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\p
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\q
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\v 10 Yahweh says, "When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.
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\q Like the first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers.
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\q But they went to Baal Peor,
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\q and they gave themselves to that shameful idol.
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\q They became as detestable as the idol they loved.
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\q
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\v 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.
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\q There will be no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
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\q
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\v 12 Though they have brought up children,
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\q I will take them away so that none of them is left.
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\q Woe to them when I turn away from them!
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\q
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\v 13 I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow,
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\q but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them."
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\q
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\v 14 Give them, Yahweh—what will you give them?
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\q Give them a miscarrying womb and breasts that give no milk.
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\q
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\v 15 "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
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\q that is where I began to hate them.
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\q Because of their sinful deeds,
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\q I will drive them out of my house.
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\q I will love them no more;
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\q all their officials are rebels.
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\q
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\v 16 Ephraim is diseased;
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\q and their root is dried up;
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\q they bear no fruit.
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\q Even if they have children,
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\q I will put their beloved children to death."
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\q
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\v 17 My God will reject them
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\q because they have not obeyed him.
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\q They will become wanderers among the nations.
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