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1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
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1 "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
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2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
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2 Israel cries out to me, 'O our God, we acknowledge you!'
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3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
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3 But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
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4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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4 They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
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5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
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5 Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?
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6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
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6 They are from Israel! This calf--a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.
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7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
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7 "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
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8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
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8 Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing.
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.
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10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.
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10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.
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11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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11 "Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.
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12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
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12 I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien.
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13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
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13 They offer sacrifices given to me and they eat the meat, but the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
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14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
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14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses."
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