60 lines
2.2 KiB
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60 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 13
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1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
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he was exalted in Israel,
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but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
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2 And now they sin more and more,
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and make for themselves metal images,
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idols skillfully made of their silver,
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all of them the work of craftsmen.
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It is said of them,
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“Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”
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3 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
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or like the dew that goes early away,
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like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
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or like smoke from a window.
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4 But I am the Lord your God
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from the land of Egypt;
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you know no God but me,
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and besides me there is no savior.
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5 It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
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in the land of drought;
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6 but when they had grazed, they became full,
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they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
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therefore they forgot me.
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7 So I am to them like a lion;
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like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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8 I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;
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I will tear open their breast,
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and there I will devour them like a lion,
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as a wild beast would rip them open.
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9 He destroys you, O Israel,
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for you are against me, against your helper.
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10 Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
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Where are all your rulers—
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those of whom you said,
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“Give me a king and princes”?
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11 I gave you a king in my anger,
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and I took him away in my wrath.
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12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
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his sin is kept in store.
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13 The pangs of childbirth come for him,
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but he is an unwise son,
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for at the right time he does not present himself
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at the opening of the womb.
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14 I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
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I shall redeem them from Death.
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O Death, where are your plagues?
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O Sheol, where is your sting?
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Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
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15 Though he may flourish among his brothers,
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the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
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rising from the wilderness,
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and his fountain shall dry up;
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his spring shall be parched;
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it shall strip his treasury
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of every precious thing.
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16 Samaria shall bear her guilt,
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because she has rebelled against her God;
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they shall fall by the sword;
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their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
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and their pregnant women ripped open. |