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| 8:1 |
"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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| 8:2 |
Israel cries out to me, `O our God, we acknowledge you!
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| 8:3 |
'But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
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| 8:4 |
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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| 8:5 |
Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?
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| 8:6 |
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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| 8:7 |
"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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| 8:8 |
Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing.
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| 8:9 |
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.
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| 8:10 |
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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| 8:11 |
"Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.
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| 8:12 |
I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien.
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| 8:13 |
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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| 8:14 |
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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