49 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
49 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 8
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1 “Set the trumpet to your mouth!
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He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
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Because they have transgressed My covenant
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And rebelled against My law.
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2 Israel will cry to Me,
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‘My God, we know You!’
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3 Israel has rejected the good;
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The enemy will pursue him.
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4 “They set up kings, but not by Me;
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They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.
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From their silver and gold
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They made idols for themselves—
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That they might be cut off.
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5 Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!
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My anger is aroused against them—
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How long until they attain to innocence?
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6 For from Israel is even this:
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A workman made it, and it is not God;
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But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
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7 “They sow the wind,
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And reap the whirlwind.
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The stalk has no bud;
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It shall never produce meal.
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If it should produce,
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Aliens would swallow it up.
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8 Israel is swallowed up;
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Now they are among the Gentiles
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Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
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Like a wild donkey alone by itself;
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Ephraim has hired lovers.
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10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
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Now I will gather them;
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And they shall sorrow a little,
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Because of the burden of the king of princes.
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11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,
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They have become for him altars for sinning.
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12 I have written for him the great things of My law,
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But they were considered a strange thing.
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13 For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it,
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But the Lord does not accept them.
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Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
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They shall return to Egypt.
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14 “For Israel has forgotten his Maker,
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And has built temples;
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Judah also has multiplied fortified cities;
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But I will send fire upon his cities,
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And it shall devour his palaces.” |