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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">whenever I would heal Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">the sins of Ephraim are exposed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">and the crimes of Samaria revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">They practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">bandits rob in the streets;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but they do not realize</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">that I remember all their evil deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">Their sins engulf them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">they are always before me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They delight the king with their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">the princes with their lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">burning like an oven</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">whose fire the baker need not stir</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">from the kneading of the dough till it rises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the day of the festival of our king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">the princes become inflamed with wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">and he joins hands with the mockers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their hearts are like an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">they approach him with intrigue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">Their passion smolders all night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All of them are hot as an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">they devour their rulers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">All their kings fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">and none of them calls on me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim mixes with the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Foreigners sap his strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not realize it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">His hair is sprinkled with gray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not notice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s arrogance testifies against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">but despite all this</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">he does not return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">or search for him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim is like a dove,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">easily deceived and senseless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now calling to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now turning to Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they go, I will throw my net over them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">When I hear them flocking together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will catch them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Woe to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have strayed from me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">Destruction to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have rebelled against me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">I long to redeem them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">but they speak about me falsely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They do not cry out to me from their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but wail on their beds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">They slash themselves,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">They gather together</span></span></span><span class="content"> appealing to their gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">for grain and new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but they turn away from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I trained them and strengthened their arms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">but they plot evil against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They do not turn to the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">they are like a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">Their leaders will fall by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">because of their insolent words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">For this they will be ridiculed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">in the land of Egypt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel to Reap the Whirlwind</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Put the trumpet to your lips!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">An eagle is over the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">because the people have broken my covenant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">and rebelled against my law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Israel cries out to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="content">&#8216;Our God, we acknowledge you!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Israel has rejected what is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="content">an enemy will pursue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They set up kings without my consent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">they choose princes without my approval.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">With their silver and gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">they make idols for themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">to their own destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samaria, throw out your calf-idol!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">My anger burns against them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">How long will they be incapable of purity?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are from Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">This calf&#8212;a metalworker has made it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">it is not God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">It will be broken in pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">that calf of Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;They sow the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">and reap the whirlwind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">The stalk has no head;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">it will produce no flour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">Were it to yield grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">foreigners would swallow it up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Israel is swallowed up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">now she is among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">like something no one wants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For they have gone up to Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">like a wild donkey wandering alone.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Although they have sold themselves among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">I will now gather them together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">They will begin to waste away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">under the oppression of the mighty king.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="content">these have become altars for sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I wrote for them the many things of my law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="content">but they regarded them as something foreign.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">and though they eat the meat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is not pleased with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">Now he will remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">and punish their sins:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">They will return to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Israel has forgotten their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">and built palaces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">Judah has fortified many towns.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">But I will send fire on their cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">that will consume their fortresses.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Punishment for Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not rejoice, Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">do not be jubilant like the other nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">For you have been unfaithful to your God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">you love the wages of a prostitute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">at every threshing floor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">the new wine will fail them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They will not remain in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">Ephraim will return to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">and eat unclean food in Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will not pour out wine offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">nor will their sacrifices please him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">all who eat them will be unclean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">This food will be for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">it will not come into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">on the feast days of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even if they escape from destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Egypt will gather them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and Memphis will bury them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and thorns will overrun their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The days of punishment are coming,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the days of reckoning are at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Let Israel know this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Because your sins are so many</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">and your hostility so great,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the prophet is considered a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the inspired person a maniac.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The prophet, along with my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">is the watchman over Ephraim,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">yet snares await him on all his paths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">and hostility in the house of his God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They have sunk deep into corruption,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">as in the days of Gibeah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">God will remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">and punish them for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I found Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like finding grapes in the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">when I saw your ancestors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">But when they came to Baal Peor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">and became as vile as the thing they loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim&#8217;s glory will fly away like a bird&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Even if they rear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">I will bereave them of every one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">Woe to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">when I turn away from them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">planted in a pleasant place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">But Ephraim will bring out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">their children to the slayer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Give them, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">what will you give them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">Give them wombs that miscarry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">and breasts that are dry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I hated them there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">Because of their sinful deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will drive them out of my house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will no longer love them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">all their leaders are rebellious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Ephraim is blighted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">their root is withered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">they yield no fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">Even if they bear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">I will slay their cherished offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My God will reject them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">because they have not obeyed him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">they will be wanderers among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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