Your (A)land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

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For (A)they sow wind
And they harvest a (B)storm.
The standing grain has no [a]kernels;
It yields (C)no [b]grain.
If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it.

Israel has been (D)swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a (E)vessel in which no one delights.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
  2. Hosea 8:7 Or meal

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