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11.8
HOSEA

My heart is turned within Me,
My compassions are kindled together.
9I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger,
I will not return to destroy Ephraim,
For I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in the midst of thee,
And I will not come in fury.
10They shall walk after the Lord,
Who shall roar like a lion;
For He shall roar,
And the children shall come trembling from the west.
11They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt,
And as a dove out of the land of Assyria;
And I will make them to dwell in their houses,
Saith the Lord.
12Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies,
And the house of Israel with deceit;
And Judah is yet wayward towards God,
And towards the Holy One who is faithful.
2Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind;
All the day he multiplieth lies and desolation;
And they make a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried into Egypt.
3The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways,
According to his doings will He recompense him.
4In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And by his strength he strove with a godlike being;
5So he strove with an angel, and prevailed;
He wept, and made supplication unto him;
At Beth-el he would find him,
And there he would speak with us.
6But the Lord, the God of hosts,
The Lord is His name.
7Therefore turn thou to thy God;
Keep mercy and justice,
And wait for thy God continually.
8As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand,
He loveth to oppress.
9And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich,
I have found me wealth;
In all my labours they shall find in me
No iniquity that were sin.'
10But I am the Lord thy God
From the land of Egypt;
I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents,
As in the days of the appointed season.
11I have also spoken unto the prophets,
And I have multiplied visions;
And by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
12If Gilead be given to iniquity
Becoming altogether vanity,
In Gilgal they sacrifice unto bullocks;
Yea, their altars shall be as heaps
In the furrows of the field.
13And Jacob fled into the field of Aram,
And Israel served for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.
14And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt,
And by a prophet was he kept.
15Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly;

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