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HOSEA
- Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven:
- For the people thereof shall mourn over it,
- And the priests thereof that rejoiced on it,
- For the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
- It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb:
- Ephraim shall receive shame,
- And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
- As for Samaria, her king is cut off
- As the foam upon the water.
- The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:
- The thorn and the thistle shall come upon their altars;
- And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us;
- And to the hills, Fall on us.
- O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood:
- The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
- It is in my desire that I should chastise them;
- And the people shall be gathered against them,
- When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
- And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn;
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