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You have never heard; you have never known;
    from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would act very treacherously
    and that from birth you were called a rebel.(A)

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You have neither heard nor understood;(A)
    from of old your ears(B) have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous(C) you are;
    you were called a rebel(D) from birth.

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Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of prostitution.(A)

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I will not show my love to her children,(A)
    because they are the children of adultery.(B)

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11 I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
    and all her appointed festivals.(A)

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11 I will stop(A) all her celebrations:(B)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(C)

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12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    of which she said,
“These are my pay,
    which my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest,
    and the wild animals shall devour them.(A)

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12 I will ruin her vines(A) and her fig trees,(B)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;(C)
I will make them a thicket,(D)
    and wild animals will devour them.(E)

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But at[a] Adam they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.

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Footnotes

  1. 6.7 Cn: Heb like

As at Adam,[a] they have broken the covenant;(A)
    they were unfaithful(B) to me there.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings