(A)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of (B)Samaria,
for (C)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.

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13 (A)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
(B)I would redeem them,
    but (C)they speak lies against me.

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What shall I do with you, (A)O (B)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O (C)Judah?
Your love is (D)like a morning cloud,
    (E)like the dew that goes early away.

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42 saying, (A)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (B)they are hidden from your eyes.

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(A)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
    (B)the prince and (C)the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
    thus they weave it together.
The best of them is (D)like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (E)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
    (F)now their confusion is at hand.
(G)Put no trust in a neighbor;
    have no confidence in a friend;
guard (H)the doors of your mouth
    from her who lies in your arms;[a]
for (I)the son treats the father with contempt,
    the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
    (J)a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
    (K)I will wait for the God of my salvation;
    my God will hear me.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom

(A)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
    they break all bounds, and (B)bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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34 (A)O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! (C)How often would I have (D)gathered (E)your children together (F)as a hen gathers her brood (G)under her wings, and (H)you were not willing!

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Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing!

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16 For you have kept the statutes of (A)Omri,[a]
    and all the works of the house of (B)Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you (C)a desolation, and your[b] inhabitants (D)a hissing;
    so you shall bear (E)the scorn of my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 Hebrew For the statutes of Omri are kept
  2. Micah 6:16 Hebrew its

14 Those who swear by (A)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (B)the Way of (C)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

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12 [a] Ephraim (A)has surrounded me with lies,
    and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
    and is faithful to the Holy One.
12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
    and pursues (B)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (C)falsehood and violence;
    (D)they make a covenant with Assyria,
    and (E)oil is carried to Egypt.

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for (A)the calf[a] of (B)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
    those who rejoiced over it and (C)over its glory—
    for it has departed[b] from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:5 Or calves
  2. Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile

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

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(A)I have[a] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
(B)How long will they be incapable of innocence?

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  1. Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has

(A)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    (B)tracked with blood.
As robbers (C)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (D)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    (E)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (F)Israel is defiled.

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Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

(A)Hear this, O priests!
    Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
    For the judgment is for you;
for (B)you have been a snare at Mizpah
    and a net spread upon (C)Tabor.

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17 (A)Ephraim is joined to idols;
    (B)leave him alone.

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Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. (A)They became mine, and they (B)bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is (C)Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

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46 And (A)your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and (B)your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

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We would have healed Babylon,
    but she was not healed.
(A)Forsake her, and (B)let us go
    each to his own country,
for (C)her judgment has reached up to heaven
    and has been lifted up even to the skies.

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[a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
    a company of (B)treacherous men.
(C)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong[b] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    (D)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

(E)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every (F)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor (G)goes about as a slanderer.
Everyone deceives his neighbor,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
    they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    (H)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
    and we know our iniquities:

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Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem

28 Ah, the proud crown of (A)the drunkards of Ephraim,
    and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
    which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

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