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12 Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless— in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them! 13 Ephraim, as I see it, is like Tyre, planted in a comfortable place; Ephraim will bear children but they will be executed.| 14 Give them, LORD— What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts. 15 |All of their wickedness started in Gilgal, because I began to hate them there. Because of the wickedness of their behavior, I will drive them from my Temple. I will not love them anymore; all their leaders are rebels. 16 Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring. 17 |My God will reject them, because they did not obey him, and they will become wanderers among the nations.| Hosea 9:12-17, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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