13 And (A)I will punish her for (B)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and (C)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

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(A)but when they had grazed,[a] they became full,
    (B)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
    (C)therefore they forgot me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture

Othniel

(A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and (B)the Asheroth.

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The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
    (A)he was exalted in Israel,
    but he incurred guilt (B)through Baal and died.

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(A)The more they were called,
    the more they went away;
(B)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and burning offerings to idols.

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(A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (B)swear falsely, (C)make offerings to Baal, (D)and go after other gods that you have not known,

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(A)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as (B)in the days of Gibeah:
(C)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
    (D)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But (E)they came to Baal-peor
    and (F)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and (G)became detestable like the thing they loved.

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(A)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.

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14 For (A)Israel has forgotten (B)his Maker
    and (C)built palaces,
and (D)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so (E)I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.

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My people are destroyed (A)for lack of knowledge;
    (B)because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you (C)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    (D)I also will forget your children.

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13 (A)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
    and burn offerings on the hills,
(B)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
    because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
    and your brides commit adultery.

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She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
(A)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to (B)my first husband,
    (C)for it was better for me then than now.’

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For (A)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (B)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who (C)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

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