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For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!"

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord ! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land."

They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.

But Israel has rejected what is morally good; so an enemy will pursue him.

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord ?

Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

So will it happen to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness! When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be destroyed.

But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.

So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

For a nation has invaded our land. There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. Their teeth are like those of a lion; they tear apart their prey like a lioness.

No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests, those who serve the Lord , are in mourning.

It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

So I will set Hazael's house on fire; fire will consume Ben Hadad's fortresses.

So I will set Gaza's city wall on fire; fire will consume her fortresses.