“ You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and the winepress won’t feed them,
and the new wine will fail her. 3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. 4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,
neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh. ”

“ The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. 8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. ”

“ They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh. 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
12 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. 13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains,
and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery. ”

“ He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown! 6 Therefore turn to your God.
Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.
He loves to defraud. 8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.” 9 “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. ”

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for you have fallen because of your sin. 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. 3 Assyria can’t save us.
We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.” ”

“ They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law. 2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
3 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me.
They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. ”

“ I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. 15 I will go and return to my place,
until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly. ”

“ I will also be so toward you.”
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
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for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery ”