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But as for you, go on your way until the end. You will rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days."

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them-not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God."

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.'

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot," declares the LORD.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise all of them.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.