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HOSEA
- For the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
- The watchman of Ephraim was with my God:
- But the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways,
- And hatred in the house of his God.
- They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
- Therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
- I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
- But they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame;
- And their abominations were according as they loved.
- As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,
- From the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
- Though they bring up their children,
- Yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left:
- Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:
- But Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
- Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?
- Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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