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| [1]Israel is a vine with goodly branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied her altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars. |
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| [2]They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn. |
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| [3]Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord: |
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| [4]and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field. |
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| [5]The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them. |
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| [6]And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel. |
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| [7]Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water. |
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| [8]And the altars of On, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. |
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| [9]From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity |
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| [10]to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins, |
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| [11]Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him. |
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| [12]Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you. |
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| [13]Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? ye have eaten false fruit; for thou has trusted in thy sins, in the abundance of thy power. |
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| [14]Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children, |
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| [15]thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins. |
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