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The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
    as tribute to the great king.[a]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
    and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.[b](A)

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  1. 10.6 Cn: Heb to a king who will contend
  2. 10.6 Cn: Heb plan

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness
    and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria
    and sent to the great king.[a]
But he is not able to cure you
    or heal your wound.(A)

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  1. 5.13 Cn: Heb to a king who will contend

Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.(A)

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Even their gods, with their idols and with their precious vessels of silver and gold, he shall carry off to Egypt as spoils of war. For some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north;(A)

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24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(A)

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16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri[a]
    and all the works of the house of Ahab,
    and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your[b] inhabitants an object of hissing,
    so you shall bear the scorn of my people.(A)

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  1. 6.16 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb the statutes of Omri are kept
  2. 6.16 Heb its

They shall return to the land of Egypt,
    and Assyria shall be their king,
    because they have refused to return to me.(A)
The sword rages in their cities;
    it consumes their oracle priests
    and devours because of their schemes.(B)

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    For it is from Israel,
an artisan made it;
    it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
    shall be broken to pieces.(A)

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19 A wind has wrapped them[a] in its wings,
    and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.[b](A)

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  1. 4.19 Heb her
  2. 4.19 Gk Syr: Heb sacrifices

The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they changed[a] their glory into shame.(A)

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  1. 4.7 Tg Syr: MT I will change

31 Then you shall remember your evil ways and your dealings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.(A)

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13 Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.(A)

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12 “I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive, and he shall pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks his cloak clean of vermin, and he shall depart from there safely.(A) 13 He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.”

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24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”(A)

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36 Why do you go about so much
    to change your way?
You shall be put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.(A)
37 From there also you will come away
    with your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
    and you will not prosper through them.(B)

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26 As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,(A)
27 who say to a tree, “You are my father,”
    and to a stone, “You gave me birth.”
For they have turned their backs to me
    and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
    “Come and save us!”(B)

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46 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and cattle;
these things you carry are loaded
    as burdens on weary animals.(A)
They stoop; they bow down together;
    they cannot save the burden
    but themselves go into captivity.(B)

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16 All of them are put to shame and confounded;
    the makers of idols go in disgrace together.(A)

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The Absurdity of Idol Worship

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, and so they will be put to shame.(A) 10 Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?(B) 11 All its devotees shall be put to shame; the artisans, too, are merely human. Let them all assemble; let them stand up; they shall be terrified; they shall all be put to shame.(C)

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29 For you shall be ashamed of the oaks
    in which you delighted,
and you shall blush for the gardens
    that you have chosen.(A)

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Their strong steps are shortened,
    and their own schemes throw them down.(A)

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King Shalmaneser of Assyria came up against him; Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.(A)

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