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And the pride of Israel has been humbled in his presence; and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

They have called to me, saying, O our God, we know thee.

For the idol is the product of Israel; a carpenter made it, therefore it is not God; but your calf, O Samaria, was made for deception.

REJOICE not, O Israel, leap not for joy, as others do; because you have gone astray from your God, you have loved gifts from every threshing floor.

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God; but the prophet is a snare and a stumbling block in all his ways, and wantonness in the house of God.

My God will reject them because they did not hearken to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

And my people are inclined to backslide from me; though they shall call to God, they will take counsel together, and none at all would exalt him.

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man in the midst of you; I am the Holy One, and I will not come to attack the city.

Ephraim has compassed me about with lies, and the house of Israel and Judah with deceit; until the people of God was humbled, a people once holy and faithful.

In the womb he deceived his brother, and by his might he became great in the presence of God;

Even the LORD the God of hosts has remembered him.

Therefore return to your God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for your God continually.

I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feasts.

Yet I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me; therefore there is no one who can save besides me.

Samaria shall be condemned because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

O ISRAEL, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Pledge loyalty, and turn to the LORD your God; and pray to him, that he may forgive your iniquity and receive blessings; then he will recompense you for the prayer of your lips.

Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, O you priests; howl, O you ministers of the altar; go in, spend the night in sackcloth, O you ministers of my God, because the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD your God, and say,

Alas, alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as plunder from God shall it come.