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In the name of the Lord God, who is called the God of Israel, you gathered gold like tin and amassed silver like lead.
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But you brought in women to lie at your side, and through your body you were brought into subjection.
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You stained your honor, and defiled your family line, so that you brought wrath upon your children, and they were grieved at your folly,
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because the sovereignty was divided and a rebel kingdom arose out of Ephraim.
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But the Lord will never give up his mercy, or cause any of his works to perish; he will never blot out the descendants of his chosen one, or destroy the family line of him who loved him. So he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David a root from his own family.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [I was grieved]
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