60 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
60 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 7
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1 “When I would have healed Israel,
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Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
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And the wickedness of Samaria.
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For they have committed fraud;
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A thief comes in;
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A band of robbers takes spoil outside.
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2 They do not consider in their hearts
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That I remember all their wickedness;
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Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
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They are before My face.
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3 They make a king glad with their wickedness,
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And princes with their lies.
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4 “They are all adulterers.
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Like an oven heated by a baker—
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He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
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Until it is leavened.
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5 In the day of our king
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Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine;
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He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
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6 They prepare their heart like an oven,
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While they lie in wait;
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Their baker sleeps all night;
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In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
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7 They are all hot, like an oven,
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And have devoured their judges;
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All their kings have fallen.
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None among them calls upon Me.
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8 “Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;
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Ephraim is a cake unturned.
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9 Aliens have devoured his strength,
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But he does not know it;
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Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
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Yet he does not know it.
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10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,
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But they do not return to the Lord their God,
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Nor seek Him for all this.
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11 “Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense—
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They call to Egypt,
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They go to Assyria.
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12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;
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I will bring them down like birds of the air;
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I will chastise them
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According to what their congregation has heard.
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13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
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Destruction to them,
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Because they have transgressed against Me!
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Though I redeemed them,
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Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
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14 They did not cry out to Me with their heart
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When they wailed upon their beds.
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“They assemble together for grain and new wine,
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They rebel against Me;
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15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
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Yet they devise evil against Me;
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16 They return, but not to the Most High;
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They are like a treacherous bow.
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Their princes shall fall by the sword
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For the cursings of their tongue.
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This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |