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| 1 'Unto thy mouth a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled. |
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| 2 To Me they cry, 'My God, we Israel have known Thee.' |
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| 3 Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him. |
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| 4 They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off. |
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| 5 Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity |
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| 6 For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments! |
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| 7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield strangers do swallow it up. |
Reap the whirlwind – A principle of the divine law. (Gal. 6:7; Prov. 22:8; 2 Cor. 9:6) R1653:3
The time of trouble. D528
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| 8 Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight. |
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| 9 For they they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers! |
Ephraim – Christendom. D22
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| 10 Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes. |
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| 11 Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin. |
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| 12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned. |
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| 13 The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They [to] Egypt they turn back. |
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| 14 And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces! |
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