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My God shall reject them because they did not listen to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear Jehovah. What then should a king do for us?

The people of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests who rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In the dawn, the king of Israel shall be completely cut off.

He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return.

And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and shall bring to an end his bars, and shall consume, because of their own counsels.

Be withered, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.

But I will remove the northern army far from you, and I will drive him into a dry and desolated land with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea. Andhis stench shall come up, and his ill odorshall come up, because he was doing great things.

So I will do this to you, O Israel: Because of this that I will do to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of hewn stones, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

And the men were terrified with fear and said to him, What is this you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from before the face of Jehovah, because he had told them.

Because of this I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackal, yea, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.

Woe to those plotting wickedness and preparing evil on their beds! In the light of the morning they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Rise up and go! For because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction, this is not your rest.

Gathering I will gather all of you, Jacob; gathering I will gather the remnant of Israel. I will set him together like the sheep of Bozrah, like a flock in the midst of its fold. They shall be in commotion because of men.

And I also have made you sick, to strike you, making you desolate because of your sins.

I will bear the fury of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until He judges my case and brings forth justice for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see His righteousness.

But the land shall become a waste because of those dwelling in it, from the fruit of their doings.