But Ephraim thinks,
“How rich I have become;(A)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any iniquity in me(B)
that I can be punished for!” [a]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:8 Lit iniquity which is sin

Ephraim boasts,(A)
    “I am very rich; I have become wealthy.(B)
With all my wealth they will not find in me
    any iniquity or sin.”

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Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished.(A) Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord because I have become rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

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Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the Lord, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.(A)

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You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!

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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich!(A) You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you!

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