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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute\'s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They will not remain in the LORD's land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the LORD? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure--thorn bushes will occupy their homes. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations The prophet is considered a fool--the inspired man is viewed as a madman--because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all of his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame--they became as detestable as what they loved. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children--they will not enjoy pregnancy--they will not even conceive! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Give them, O LORD--what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Ephraim will be struck down--their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations. |
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