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When Israel
was
a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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As
they called them,
so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
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I
taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
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I drew
them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on
their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
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He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they
refused to return.
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And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and
devour
them,
because of their own counsels.
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And my people are bent to backsliding from me:
though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt
him.
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How shall I give thee up,
Ephraim?
how
shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah?
how
shall I set thee as
Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
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I will not execute
the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I
am
God, and not man; the
Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
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They shall walk after the L
ORD
:
he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
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They
shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them
in their houses, saith the L
ORD
.
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Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel
with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
CHAPTER 12
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation;
and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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The L
ORD
hath also
a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings
will he recompense him.
3
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had
power with God:
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Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication
unto him: he found him
in
Bethel, and there he spake with us;
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Even the L
ORD
God of hosts; the
L
ORD
is
his memorial.
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Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy
God continually.
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He is
a merchant, the balances of deceit
are
in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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And Ephraim
said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:
in
all my labours they shall find none
iniquity in me that
were
sin.
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And I
that am
the L
ORD
thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make
thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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I have also spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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Is there
iniquity
in
Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars
are
as
heaps in the furrows of the fields.
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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for
a wife, and for a wife he kept
sheep.
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And by a prophet the L
ORD
brought Israel out of Egypt,
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