58 lines
2.1 KiB
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58 lines
2.1 KiB
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# Chapter 7
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1 when I would heal Israel,
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the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
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and the evil deeds of Samaria,
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for they deal falsely;
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the thief breaks in,
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and the bandits raid outside.
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2 But they do not consider
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that I remember all their evil.
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Now their deeds surround them;
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they are before my face.
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3 By their evil they make the king glad,
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and the princes by their treachery.
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4 They are all adulterers;
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they are like a heated oven
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whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
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from the kneading of the dough
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until it is leavened.
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5 On the day of our king, the princes
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became sick with the heat of wine;
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he stretched out his hand with mockers.
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6 For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
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all night their anger smolders;
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in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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7 All of them are hot as an oven,
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and they devour their rulers.
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All their kings have fallen,
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and none of them calls upon me.
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8 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
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Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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9 Strangers devour his strength,
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and he knows it not;
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gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
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and he knows it not.
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10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
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yet 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 is like a dove,
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silly and without sense,
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calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
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12 As they go, I will spread over them my net;
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I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
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I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
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13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
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Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
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I would redeem them,
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but they speak lies against me.
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14 They do not cry to me from the heart,
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but they wail upon their beds;
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for grain and wine they gash themselves;
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they rebel against me.
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15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
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yet they devise evil against me.
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16 They return, but not upward;
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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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because of the insolence of their tongue.
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This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |