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When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel , When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth .
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And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver , By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artizans -- all of it, Of them they say , who [are] sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss .'
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Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning , And as dew , rising early , going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor , And as smoke out of a window.
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And I [am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt , And a God besides Me thou dost not know , And a Saviour -- there is none save Me.
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I -- I have known thee in a wilderness , In a land of droughts.
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According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,
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And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.
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I do meet them as a bereaved bear , And I rend the enclosure of their heart .
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And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.
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Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me [is] thy help, Where [is] thy king now -- And he doth save thee in all thy cities ? And thy judges of whom thou didst say , `Give to me a king and heads ?'
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I give to thee a king in Mine anger , And I take away in My wrath .
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Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim , Hidden [is] his sin ,
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Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He [is] a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.
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From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where [is] thy plague , O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol ? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes .
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Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind , a wind of Jehovah , From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain , And become dry doth his spring , It -- it spoileth a treasure -- every desirable vessel.
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Become desolate doth Samaria , Because she hath rebelled against her God , By sword they do fall , Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!