When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.
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And now they have sinned more and more : and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.
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Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
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But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.
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I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.
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According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.
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And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.
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I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.
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Destruction is thy own, 0 Israel: thy help is only in me.
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Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me kings and princes.
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I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.
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The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
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The sorrows of a woman in labour snail come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.
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I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.
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Because he shall make a separation between brothers: s the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of ever
