(A)Assyria shall not save us;
    (B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

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14 But you do see, for you (A)note mischief and vexation,
    that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless (B)commits himself;
    you have been (C)the helper of the fatherless.

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(A)Father of the fatherless and (B)protector of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.

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17 (A)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
    and by its great might it cannot rescue.

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18 “I will not leave you as orphans; (A)I will come to you.

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O (A)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[a]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    (B)from me comes your fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him

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

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  1. Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb

17 For (A)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
    and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
    and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
    or consult the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,

16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon (A)horses”;
    therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
    therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

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Idolatry Cut Off

“And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

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10 And (A)in that day, declares the Lord,
    (B)I will cut off your horses from among you
    and will destroy your chariots;
11 (C)and I will cut off the cities of your land
    and throw down all your strongholds;
12 and I will cut off (D)sorceries from your hand,
    and (E)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
13 and (F)I will cut off your carved images
    and (G)your pillars from among you,
(H)and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your (I)Asherah images from among you
    (J)and destroy your cities.

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12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
    and pursues (A)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (B)falsehood and violence;
    (C)they make a covenant with Assyria,
    and (D)oil is carried to Egypt.

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For (A)they have gone up to Assyria,
    (B)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.

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For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
(A)The calf of Samaria
    (B)shall be broken to pieces.[a]

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  1. Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames

11 Ephraim is like a dove,
    (A)silly and without sense,
    calling to (B)Egypt, going to (C)Assyria.

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and he said to me, (A)“Son of man, this is (B)the place of my throne and (C)the place of the soles of my feet, (D)where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more (E)defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[a] of their kings at their high places,[b] by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with (F)only a wall between me and them. They have (G)defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, (H)and I will dwell in their midst forever.

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  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the monuments; also verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or at their deaths

23 (A)They shall not (B)defile themselves anymore (C)with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But (D)I will save them from all the backslidings[a] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and (E)they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

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  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings

25 (A)I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from (B)all your uncleannesses, and (C)from all your idols (D)I will cleanse you.

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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
    and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (F)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    (G)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
(H)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

21 (I)“Set up road markers for yourself;
    make yourself guideposts;
(J)consider well the highway,
    (K)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
    return to these your cities.
22 (L)How long will you waver,
    (M)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

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  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

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The Egyptians are man, and not God,
    and their horses (A)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
    and they will all perish together.

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(A)who set out to go down to Egypt,
    without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

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Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin

20 In that day (A)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the (B)bats,

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