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11     Ephraim was a trained heifer who loved to tread on the threshing floor.
        Now I have lashed a yoke to her fair neck.
    Judah will plow, and Jacob will break up the hard, compacted soil.

12 Plant a crop of righteousness for yourselves,
    harvest the fruit of unfailing love,
And break up your hard soil,
    because it’s time to seek the Eternal
    until He comes and waters your fields with justice.

13 You’ve plowed wickedness and reaped injustice;
    you’ve eaten the fruit of deception.
Because you’ve trusted in your own might,
    in the size and skill of your army,

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