(A)I have winnowed them with (B)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    (C)they did not turn from their ways.

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12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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and I will send to Babylon winnowers,
    and (A)they shall winnow her,
and they shall empty her land,
    when they come against her from every side
    (B)on the day of trouble.

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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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13 The people (A)did not turn to him who struck them,
    nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.

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12 (A)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
(B)Woe to them
    when (C)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (D)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
    but (E)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]
14 Give them, O Lord
    what will you give?
Give them (F)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

15 Every evil of theirs is in (G)Gilgal;
    there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
    all (H)their princes are (I)rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;
    (J)their root is dried up;
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even (K)though they give birth,
    (L)I will put their beloved children to death.
17 (M)My God will reject them
    because they have not listened to him;
    (N)they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

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Sin and Treachery

“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
(A)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
Why then has this people (B)turned away
    in perpetual (C)backsliding?
(D)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.

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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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The wicked are not so,
    but are like (A)chaff that the wind drives away.

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(A)Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

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10 “I sent among you a pestilence (A)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and (B)carried away your horses,[a]
    and (C)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

11 “I overthrew some of you,
    (E)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were (F)as a brand[b] plucked out of the burning;
(G)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses
  2. Amos 4:11 That is, a burning stick

25 “As for you, (A)son of man, surely on the day when I take from them (B)their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,

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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, 12 a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who (B)speak in judgment upon them.”

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41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (A)they shall go into captivity.

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21 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and (B)your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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21 For death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.

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53 And (A)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (B)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (C)begrudge food to his brother, to (D)the wife he embraces,[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (E)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (F)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[b] to her son and to her daughter,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
  2. Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom

32 (A)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (B)but you shall be helpless.

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18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

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