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You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies; for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.

They shall walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.

Therefore you shall turn to your God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for your God continually.

And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity which [would be] sin.

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

And now they sin more and more, and have made for themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let man who sacrifices kiss the calves.

The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come on him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of sons.

Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

O Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, [You are] our gods; for in you the fatherless finds mercy.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Yahweh are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The field is laid waste, the land mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

Be confounded, O you husbandmen, wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languishes; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy has withered away from the sons of man.

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.