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the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. : In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. : I ate no pleasant bread, neither came
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flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. : And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; : Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in
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linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: : His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. : And I
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Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. : Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained
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no strength. : Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. : And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. : And he said
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unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. : Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand,
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and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. : But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. : Now I am come to
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make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. : And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. : And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my
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mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. : For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left
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in me. : Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, : And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
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: Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. : But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in
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these things, but Michael your prince. : Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. : And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through
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his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. : And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. : And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor
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according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. : And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. : And in the end of years they shall
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join themselves together; for the kings daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her
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in these times. : But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: : And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with
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their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. : So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. : But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come,
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and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress. : And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his
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hand. : And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it. : For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a
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great army and with much riches. : And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. : So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and
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the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. : But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. : He shall also set
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his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. : After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a
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prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. : Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. : Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser
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of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. : And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. : And with the
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arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. : And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. : He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province;
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and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. : And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a
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great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. : Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain. : And
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both of these kings hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. : Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return
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to his own land. : At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter. : For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even
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return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. : And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. : And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people
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that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. : And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. : Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with
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flatteries. : And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. : And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
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marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. : Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. : But in his estate shall he honour the God of
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forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. : Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for
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gain. : And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. : He shall enter also into the
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glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. : He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. : But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of
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silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. : But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. : And he shall plant the tabernacles of his
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palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. : And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to
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that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. : And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. : And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of
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the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. : But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. : Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one
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on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. : And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? : And I heard the man clothed in linen, which
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was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. :
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And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? : And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. : Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and
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none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. : And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. : Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
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: But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Hosea : The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son
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of Joash, king of Israel. : The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. : So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare
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him a son. : And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. : And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow
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of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel. : And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. : But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by
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the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. : Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. : Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. : Yet the number
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of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. : Then shall the children
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of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. : Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. : Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her
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husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; : Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. : And I will not have
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mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. : For their mother hath played the harlot: 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
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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
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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
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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. : And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof
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she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. : And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after
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her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. : Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. : And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as
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in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. : And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. : For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their
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name. : And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. : And I
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will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. : I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. : And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear
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the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; : And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. : And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my
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people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. : Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. : So I bought her to
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me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: : And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee. : For the children of Israel shall abide
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many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: : Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. : Hear the word of the
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LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. : By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. : Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
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dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. : Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. : Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall
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fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. : My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. : As they were increased, so
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they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. : They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. : And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. : For they shall eat, and not have enough:
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they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. : Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. : My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring
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from under their God. : They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. : I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit
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adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. : Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. : For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now
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the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. : Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. : Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. : The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. : Hear
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ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. : And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. : I know Ephraim,
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and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. : They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. : And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore
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shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them. : They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. : They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour
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them with their portions. : Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. : Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. : The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
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therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. : Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. : Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. : When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the
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Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. : For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. : I will go and
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return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. : Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. : After two days will he revive us: in the third day
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he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. : Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. : O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
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O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. : Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. : For I desired mercy, and not
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sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. : But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. : Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. : And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way
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by consent: for they commit lewdness. : I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. : Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. : When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
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and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. : And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. : They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes
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with their lies. : They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. : In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. : For they have made ready their
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heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. : They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. : Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
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Ephraim is a cake not turned. : Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. : And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. : Ephraim also is
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like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. : When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. : Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because
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they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. : And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. : Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief
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against me. : They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. : Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because
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they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. : Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. : Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. : They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their
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gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. : Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? : For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be
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broken in pieces. : For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. : Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. : For they are
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gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. : Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. : Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. : I
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have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. : They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. : For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and
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buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. : Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. : The floor and the winepress shall not feed
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them, and the new wine shall fail in her. : They shall not dwell in the LORDs land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. : They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners;
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all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. : What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? : For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the
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pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. : The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. : The watchman of Ephraim was with my
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