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- All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them:
- For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,
- I will love them no more:
- All their princes are revolters.
- Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:
- Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
- My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:
- And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
- According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars;
- According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
- Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:
- He shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
- For now they shall say, We have no king,
- Because we feared not the Lord;
- What then should a king do to us?
- They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:
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