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HOSEA
- It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:
- If so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
- Israel is swallowed up:
- Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
- For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
- Ephraim hath hired lovers.
- Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them,
- And they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
- Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,
- Altars shall be unto him to sin.
- I have written to him the great things of my law,
- But they were counted as a strange thing.
- They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it;
- But the Lord accepteth them not;
- Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:
- They shall return to Egypt.
- For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
- And Judah hath multiphed fenced cities:
- But I will send a fire upon his cities,
- And it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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