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10 Even though they bargain with the nations,
    I will now gather them[a] together;
They will soon succumb
    under the burden of king and princes.

11 [b]When Ephraim made many altars to expiate sin,
    they became altars for sinning.
12 Though I write for him my many instructions,
    they are considered like a stranger’s.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:10 I will now gather them: for judgment and for deportation.
  2. 8:11 The altars had become places of self-serving worship (cf. v. 13).