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DECEMBER 9
5 What will you do in the appointed day, Give them a miscarrying womb
And in the day of the feast of the LORD? And dry breasts!
For indeed they are gone because 15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal,
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of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up; For there I hated them.
Memphis shall bury them. Because of the evil of their deeds
Nettles shall possess their valuables I will drive them from My house;
of silver; I will love them no more.
Thorns shall be in their tents. All their princes are rebellious.
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Ephraim is stricken,
7 The days of punishment have come; Their root is dried up;
The days of recompense have come. They shall bear no fruit.
Israel knows! Yes, were they to bear children,
The prophet is a fool, I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your 17 My God will cast them away,
iniquity and great enmity. Because they did not obey Him;
8 The watchman of Ephraim is with And they shall be wanderers among
my God; the nations.
But the prophet is a fowler’s snare Israel empties his vine;
in all his ways— 10 He brings forth fruit for himself.
Enmity in the house of his God.
According to the multitude of his fruit
He has increased the altars;
According to the bounty of his land
They have embellished his sacred pillars.
9:7,8 The prophets were God’s inspired mes- 2 Their heart is divided;
sengers and watchmen (Ezek.3:17;33:1–7),yet Now they are held guilty.
Israel considered them fools and madmen. He will break down their altars;
He will ruin their sacred pillars.
For now they say,
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9 They are deeply corrupted, “We have no king,
As in the days of Gibeah. Because we did not fear the LORD.
He will remember their iniquity; And as for a king, what would he do
He will punish their sins. for us?”
4 They have spoken words,
“I found Israel
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Like grapes in the wilderness; Swearing falsely in making
I saw your fathers a covenant.
As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its Thus judgment springs up like
first season. hemlock in the furrows of the field.
But they went to Baal Peor, 5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
And separated themselves to that shame; Because of the calf of Beth Aven.
They became an abomination like the For its people mourn for it,
thing they loved. And its priests shriek for it—
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away Because its glory has departed
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like a bird— from it.
No birth, no pregnancy, and no 6 The idol also shall be carried to Assyria
conception! As a present for King Jareb.
12 Though they bring up their children, Ephraim shall receive shame,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man. And Israel shall be ashamed
Yes, woe to them when I depart from of his own counsel.
them!
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off
13 Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted
in a pleasant place, Like a twig on the water.
8 Also the high places of Aven, the sin
So Ephraim will bring out his children of Israel,
to the murderer.”
Shall be destroyed.
14 Give them, O LORD— The thorn and thistle shall grow on
What will You give? their altars;

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