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They return, but not to the Most High. 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.

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.

But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; But they were regarded as a strange thing.

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, And punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send a fire on his cities, And it will devour its fortresses."

They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.

Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; But they didn't know that I healed them.

They will not return into the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian will be their king, Because they refused to repent.

"But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, As in the days of the solemn feast.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

"Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; And you will know no god but me, And besides me there is no savior.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

But I will remove the northern army far away from you, And will drive it into a barren and desolate land, Its front into the eastern sea, And its back into the western sea; And its stench will come up, And its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.

But Judah will be inhabited forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, And it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, And it will devour its palaces.