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They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord,
    for they have borne illegitimate children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.(A)

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But at[a] Adam they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.

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  1. 6.7 Cn: Heb like

20 Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband,
    so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel,
            says the Lord.(A)

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You have never heard; you have never known;
    from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would act very treacherously
    and that from birth you were called a rebel.(A)

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11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.(A) 12 For the one who does this, may the Lord cut off any witness[a] or advocate from the tents of Jacob or anyone who could bring an offering to the Lord of hosts.(B)

13 And this you do as well: You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand. 14 You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.(C) 15 Did God[b] not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.[c](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.12 Q ms Compare Gk: MT arouse
  2. 2.15 Heb he
  3. 2.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain

In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.(A)

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11 I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
    and all her appointed festivals.(A)

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Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of prostitution.(A)

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28 Therefore say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be fulfilled, says the Lord God.”(A)

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11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
    have been utterly faithless to me,
            says the Lord.(A)

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13 transgressing and denying the Lord
    and turning away from following our God,
talking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.(A)

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11 Rescue me from the cruel sword,
    and deliver me from the hand of aliens,
whose mouths speak lies,
    and whose right hands are false.(A)

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Stretch out your hand from on high;
    set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters,
    from the hand of foreigners,(A)

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Mixed Marriages Condemned

23 In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab,(A) 24 and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah but spoke the language of various peoples.

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