16 And he (A)was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

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19 (A)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For (B)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (C)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 (D)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 (E)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things (F)of which you are now ashamed? (G)For the end of those things is death.

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12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
    and pursues (A)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (B)falsehood and violence;
    (C)they make a covenant with Assyria,
    and (D)oil is carried to Egypt.

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Those who once feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
(A)those who were brought up in purple
    embrace ash heaps.

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20 (A)He feeds on (B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (C)a lie in my right hand?”

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(A)Look to the (B)right and see:
    (C)there is none who takes notice of me;
(D)no refuge remains to me;
    no one cares for my soul.

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saying,

(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    (C)and you heard my voice.
(D)For you cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
(E)all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.
(F)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
(G)yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’
(H)The waters closed in over me (I)to take my life;
    the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O Lord my God.
When my life was fainting away,
    I remembered the Lord,
(J)and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.
(K)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (L)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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But you, draw near,
    sons of the sorceress,
    (A)offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

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(A)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
    and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.

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22 I was (A)brutish and ignorant;
    I was like (B)a beast toward you.

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