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17 Leave Israel[a] alone,
    because she is married to idolatry.

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  1. 4:17 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.

12 So I let them follow their own stubborn desires,
    living according to their own ideas.

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14 so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch.”

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Now they continue to sin by making silver idols,
    images shaped skillfully with human hands.
“Sacrifice to these,” they cry,
    “and kiss the calf idols!”

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“Don’t point your finger at someone else
    and try to pass the blame!
My complaint, you priests,
    is with you.[a]

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  1. 4:4 Hebrew Your people are like those with a complaint against the priests.

11 Let the one who is doing harm continue to do harm; let the one who is vile continue to be vile; let the one who is righteous continue to live righteously; let the one who is holy continue to be holy.”

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12 [a]The people of Israel[b] feed on the wind;
    they chase after the east wind all day long.
They pile up lies and violence;
    they are making an alliance with Assyria
    while sending olive oil to buy support from Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:1a Verses 12:1-14 are numbered 12:2-15 in Hebrew text.
  2. 12:1b Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel; also in 12:8, 14.

But the more I called to him,
    the farther he moved from me,[a]
offering sacrifices to the images of Baal
    and burning incense to idols.

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  1. 11:2 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads the more they called to him, the farther he moved from them.

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