20 For when I have brought them into the land (A)flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and (B)grown fat, (C)they will turn to other gods and serve them, and (D)despise me and (E)break my covenant.

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(A)but when they had grazed,[a] they became full,
    (B)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
    (C)therefore they forgot me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture

25 And they captured (A)fortified cities and (B)a rich land, and took possession of (C)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (D)and became fat and delighted themselves in (E)your great goodness.

26 (F)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you (G)and cast your law behind their back (H)and killed your prophets, who (I)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, (J)and they committed great blasphemies.

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10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities (A)that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 (B)then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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and (A)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and (B)to bring them up out of that land to a (C)good and broad land, a land (D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (E)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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20 “Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

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28     (A)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
    (B)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
    and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

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16 (A)I will seek the lost, (B)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and (C)the fat and the strong I will destroy.[a] I will feed them in justice.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over

11 (A)“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,
    and neigh like stallions,

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70 their heart is unfeeling (A)like fat,
    but I (B)delight in your law.

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Their (A)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.

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10 (A)They close their hearts to pity;
    with their mouths they (B)speak arrogantly.

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35 Even in their own kingdom, (A)and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and (B)rich land that you set before them, (C)they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.

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15 “But (A)Jeshurun grew fat, and (B)kicked;
    (C)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(D)then he forsook God (E)who made him
    and scoffed at (F)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (G)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (H)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (I)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.

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16 And the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and (B)whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will (C)forsake me and (D)break my covenant that I have made with them. 17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and (E)I will forsake them and (F)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, (G)‘Have not these evils come upon us because (H)our God is not among us?’

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10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 (A)lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 (B)then your heart be lifted up, and you (C)forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, (A)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,

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A Chosen People

“When the (A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, (B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations (C)more numerous and mightier than you,

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17 and I promise that (A)I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land (B)flowing with milk and honey.”’

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