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HOSEA
- He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand:
- He loveth to oppress.
- And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:
- In all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
- And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt
- Will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
- I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,
- And used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
- Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity:
- They sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;
- Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
- And Jacob fled into the country of Syria,
- And Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
- And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,
- And by a prophet was he preserved.
- Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
- Therefore shall he leave his blood upon him,
- And his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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