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| [1]Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up. |
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| [2]Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities. |
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| [3]Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that ye may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips. |
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| [4]Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan. |
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| [5]I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him. |
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| [6]I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus. |
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| [7]His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus. |
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| [8]They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus. |
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| [9]What has he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found. |
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| [10]Who is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein. |
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