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He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.

So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all He has done. But we have not obeyed Him.

At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. So consider the message and understand the vision:

Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and cleansed until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

I heard but did not understand. So I asked, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?"

So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.

So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

So I am like rot to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah.

He will revive us after two days, and on the third day He will raise us up so we can live in His presence.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a meadow, so Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner.

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your extreme evil. At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.

So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path.

Take words of repentance with you and return to the Lord . Say to Him: "Forgive all our sin and accept what is good, so that we may repay You with praise from our lips.

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, so you can offer grain and wine to the Lord your God.

The Lord says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion's mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.