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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Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
    or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
    or (D)like smoke from a window.

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How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
    How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.

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34 When he killed them, they (A)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 They remembered that God was their (B)rock,
    the Most High God their (C)redeemer.
36 But they (D)flattered him with their mouths;
    they (E)lied to him with their tongues.
37 Their (F)heart was not (G)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.

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And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. (A)Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”

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21 yet he has no root in himself, but (A)endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately (B)he falls away.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:21 Or stumbles

20 For if, (A)after they have escaped the defilements of the world (B)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, (C)the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For (D)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from (E)the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The (F)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes.

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12 Then (A)they believed his words;
    they (B)sang his praise.

13 But they soon (C)forgot his works;
    they did not wait for (D)his counsel.

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15 You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes (A)by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and (B)you made a covenant before me in the (C)house that is called by my name,

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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (A)I will refine them and (B)test them,
    for what else can I do, (C)because of my people?

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23 (A)But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
    they have turned aside and gone away.

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(A)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord;
    and shall I not avenge myself
    on a nation such as this?

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