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But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.

you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.'

From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord ."

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord . I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord ; I will not be angry forever.

Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord ; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

"But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God."

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.

For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us."

a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."

Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise'—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."

For thus says the Lord , "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.