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HOSEA
- She that conceived them hath done shamefully:
- For she said, I will go after my lovers,
- That give me my bread and my water,
- My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
- And make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
- And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them;
- And she shall seek them, but shall not find them:
- Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband;
- For then was it better with me than now.
- For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
- And multiplied her silver and gold,
- Which they prepared for Baal.
- Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof,
- And my wine in the season thereof,
- And will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
- And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
- And none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
- I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
- Her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
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