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“To your mouth—a horn, || As an eagle against the house of YHWH, || Because they transgressed My covenant, || And against My law they have rebelled.
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To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
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Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
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They have made kings, and not by Me, || They have made princes, and I have not known, || Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, || So that they are cut off.
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Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, || My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
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For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, || And it [is] not God, || For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
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For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, || Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, || If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.
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Israel has been swallowed up, || Now they have been among nations, || As a vessel in which is no delight.
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For they have gone up [to] Asshur, || A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, || They have hired lovers!
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Also though they hire among nations, || Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, || From the burden of a king of princes.
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Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, || They have been to him altars to sin.
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I write for him numerous things of My law, || As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
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The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, || YHWH has not accepted them, || Now He remembers their iniquity, || And inspects their sin, || They return [to] Egypt.
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And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, || And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, || And I have sent a fire into his cities, || And it has consumed their palaces!”
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