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O ye Priestes, heare this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and giue ye eare, O house of the for iudgement is towarde you, because you haue bene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spred vpon Tabor.
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Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
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I knowe Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from for nowe, O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.
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They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.
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And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their Iudah also shall fall with them.
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They shall goe with their sheepe, and with their bullockes to seeke the but they shall not finde for he hath withdrawne himselfe from them.
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They haue transgressed against the for they haue begotte strange now shall a moneth deuoure them with their portions.
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Blowe ye the trumpet in Gibeah, and the shaume in crie out at Beth-auen, after thee, O Beniamin.
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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.
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The princes of Iudah were like them that remoue the therefore will I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.
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Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in iudgement, because he willingly walked after the commandement.
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Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.
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When Ephraim sawe his sickenes, and Iudah his wound, then went Ephraim vnto Asshur, and sent vnto King yet coulde hee not heale you, nor cure you of your wound.
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For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of I, euen I will spoyle, and goe I will take away, and none shall rescue it.
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I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.