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| [1]Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves. |
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| [2]O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts. |
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| [3]Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths; |
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| [4]who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; |
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| [5]who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures; |
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| [6]who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph. |
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| [7]Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim. |
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| [8]For the Lord has sworn by himself, saying, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it. |
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| [9]And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die. |
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| [10]But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet any one else with thee? |
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| [11]And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord. |
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| [12]For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents. |
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| [13]Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness: |
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| [14]ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength? |
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| [15]For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Æmath, and as it were from the river of the wilderness. |
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