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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds. |
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