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The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
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I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
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Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.
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I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
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They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria’s pride will be brought down and Egypt’s scepter will pass away.
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I will strengthen them in the LORDand in his name they will live securely,” declares the LORD.