Hosea 8: 4 - 7, 11 - 13
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| 4
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They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
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| 5
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I have spurned your calf, O Sama'ria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure
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| 6
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in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Sama'ria shall be broken to pieces.
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| 7
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For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
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| 11
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Because E'phraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
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| 12
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Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
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| 13
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They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
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