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And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

"And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord , I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel,

And the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the Lord .

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord , but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.

when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.