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12 Even 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 Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter. 14 Give them, O LORD--what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse! 15 Because 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 Ephraim 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 My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations. Hosea 9:12-17, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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