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And she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth,

And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD,

That thou shalt call me Ishi;

And shalt call me no more 2 Baali.

17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, And they shall no more be remembered by their name.

18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them

With the beasts of the field,

And with the fowls of heaven,

And with the creeping things of the ground:

And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,
And will make them to lie down safely.

19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever;

Yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment,
And in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:

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And thou shalt know the LORD.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD,

I will hear the heavens,

And they shall hear the earth;

22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;

And they shall hear Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth;

And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy;

And I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people;
And they shall say, Thou art my God.

3 THEN said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet
an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel,
2 who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
3
So I bought her to me for

fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an 4 half homer of barley: 3 and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, 5 and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

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HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:

For the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,

Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing,

And stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,

And blood toucheth blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn,

And every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,

With the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven;

Yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another:

For thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day,

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And the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night,
And I will 7 destroy thy mother.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
Because thou hast rejected knowledge,

I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:
Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,

I will also forget thy children.

7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: Therefore will I change their glory into shame.

8 They eat up the sin of my people,

And they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: And I will punish them for their ways, And 3 reward them their doings.

10 For they shall eat, and not have enough:

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They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:
Because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

12 My people ask counsel at their stocks,

And their staff declareth unto them:

For the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, And they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,

And burn incense upon the hills,
Under oaks and poplars and elms,
Because the shadow thereof is good:

Therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom,

And your spouses shall commit adultery.

14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, Nor your spouses when they commit adultery:

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For themselves are separated with whores,

And they sacrifice with harlots:

Therefore the people that doth not understand shall 5 fall.

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot,

Yet let not Judah offend;

And come not ye unto Gilgal,
Neither go ye up to Beth-aven,

Nor swear, The LORD liveth.

16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer:

Now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

17 Ephraim is joined to idols-let him alone.

18 Their drink is sour:

They have committed whoredom continually:
Her 7 rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings,

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And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

HEAR ye this, O priests;

And hearken, ye house of Israel;

And give ye ear, O house of the king;

For judgment is toward you,

Because ye have been a snare on Mizpah,

And a net spread upon Tabor.

2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,

8 Though I have been 9 a rebuker of them all.

3 I know Ephraim,

And Israel is not hid from me:

For now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom,

And Israel is defiled.

4 1011 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:

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For the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,

And they have not known the LORD.

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

1 Heb. lift up their soul
to their iniquity.

2 Heb. visit upon.
3 Heb. cause to return.

4 Or, Shall I not, &c.

5 Or, be punished.
6 Heb. is gone.
7 Heb. shields.

8 Or, And, &c.

9 Heb. a correction.

10 Heb. They will not give.

11 Or, Their doings will not suffer them.

6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; But they shall not find him;

He hath withdrawn himself from them.

7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD:

For they have begotten strange children:

Now shall a month devour them with their portions.

8 BLOW ye the cornet in Gibeah,

And the trumpet in Ramah :

Cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.

9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:

Among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:

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Therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,

Because he willingly walked after the commandment.

12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth,

And to the house of Judah as rottenness.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,

And Judah saw his wound,

Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian,
And sent to king Jareb:

Yet could he not heal you,

Nor cure you of your wound.

14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion,

And as a young lion to the house of Judah :

I, even I, will tear and go away;

I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

15 I will go and return to my place,

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3 Till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:

In their affliction they will seek me early.

Come, and let us return unto the LORD:

For he hath torn-and he will heal us;

He hath smitten-and he will bind us up.

2 After two days will he revive us :

In the third day he will raise us up,

And we shall live in his sight.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD:

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His going forth is prepared as the morning;

And he shall come unto us as the rain,

As the latter and former rain unto the earth.

O EPHRAIM, what shall I do unto thee?

O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?

For your 4 goodness is as a morning cloud,
And as the early dew it goeth away.

5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets;

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I have slain them by the words of my mouth:

5 And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;

And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: There have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, And is 7 polluted with blood.

9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man,

So the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
For they commit 9 lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:

1 Or, a worm.

2 Or, to the king of Jareb: or, to the king

that should plead.

3 Heb. Till they be guilty.

4 Or, mercy, or, kindness.

5 Or, that thy judgments might be, &c.

6 Or, like Adam.

7 Or, cunning for blood.

8 Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem. 9 Or, enormity.

When I would have healed Israel,

Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria:

For they commit falsehood;

And the thief cometh in,

And the troop of robbers 2 spoileth without.

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2 And they consider not in their hearts

That I remember all their wickedness:

Now their own doings have beset them about;
They are before my face.

3 They make the king glad with their wickedness,
And the princes with their lies.

4 They are all adulterers,

As an oven heated by the baker,

4 Who ceaseth from 5raising after he hath kneaded the dough,
Until it be leavened.

5 In the day of our king

The princes have made him sick with bottles of wine;

He stretched out his hand with scorners.

6 For they have 7 made ready their heart like an oven, Whiles they lie in wait:

Their baker sleepeth all the night;

In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot as an oven,

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And have devoured their judges;

All their kings are fallen:

There is none among them that calleth unto me.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9 Strangers have devoured his strength-and he knoweth it not;

Yea, gray hairs are 8 here and there upon him-yet he knoweth not.

10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face:

And they do not return to the LORD their God,

Nor seek him for all this.

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart:

They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them;

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I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven;

I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me :

9 Destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: Though I have redeemed them-yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart,

When they howled upon their beds:

They assemble themselves for corn and wine,

And they rebel against me.

15 Though I 10 have bound and strengthened their arms,

Yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16 They return-but not to the Most High:

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They are like a deceitful bow :

Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue:

This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

SET the trumpet to 11thy mouth.

He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD,

1 Heb. evils.

2 Heb. strippeth.

3 Heb. say not to.

4 Or, The raiser will cease.

B.C. cir. 780.

10 Or, chastened.

11 Heb. the roof of thy
mouth.

Because they have transgressed my covenant,
And trespassed against my law.

2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:

The enemy shall pursue him.

4 They have set up kings-but not by me:

They have made princes-and I knew it not:

Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
That they may be cut off.

5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off';
Mine anger is kindled against them:

How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

6 For from Israel was it also:

The workman made it; therefore it is not God:

But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7 For they have sown the wind-and they shall reap the whirlwind :

It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:

If so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8 Israel is swallowed up:

Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:

Ephraim hath hired 2 lovers.

10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, And they shall sorrow 4 a little for the burden of the king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,

Altars shall be unto him to sin.

12 I have written to him the great things of my law,

But they were counted as a strange thing.

13 5 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; But the LORD accepteth them not;

Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:

They shall return to Egypt.

14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;

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And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities:

But I will send a fire upon his cities,

And it shall devour the palaces thereof.

REJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:

For thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

2 The floor and the 7 winepress shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,

And they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,

Neither shall they be pleasing unto him:

Their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners;
All that eat thereof shall be polluted:

For their bread for their soul

Shall not come into the house of the LORD.

5 What will ye do in the solemn day,

And in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6 For, lo, they are gone because of 8 destruction:

Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them:

918 The pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them:

Thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7 The days of visitation are come, The days of recompence are come;

1 Or, standing corn.

2 Heb. loves.

3 Or, begin.

4 Or, in a little while.

5 Or, In the sacrifices of mine
offerings they, &c.

6 Or, in, &c.

7 Or, winefat.