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And he shall honour the god of forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.

And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.

But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.

Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt-offerings.

And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

They shall soon cry out to me, saying, O God, we know thee.

Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing-floor.

The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

and his people shall cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.