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HOSEA
- And there will I devour them like a lion:
- The wild beast shall tear them.
- O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
- I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?
- And thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
- I gave thee a king in mine anger,
- And took him away in my wrath.
- The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him:
- He is an unwise son;
- For he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
- I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
- I will redeem them from death:
- O death, I will be thy plagues;
- O grave, I will be thy destruction:
- Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- Though he be fruitful among his brethren,
- An east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness,
- And his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up:
- He shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- Samaria shall become desolate;
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