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Ephraim compasses me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; and even Judah went down from God and the faithful Holy One.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:

even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his memorial [name].

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yes], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness, and repents of the evil.

Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering to Yahweh your God?

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Be glad then, you sons of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first [month].

And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Yahweh your God, that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to shame.

And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh your God, and there is no other; and my people shall never be put to shame.

So you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then Jerusalem shall be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.