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Rh :They have made princes, and I knew it not;
 * Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
 * That they may be cut off.
 * Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off;
 * Mine anger is kindled against them;
 * How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
 * For from Israel is even this:
 * The craftsman made it, and it is no God;
 * Yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in shivers.
 * For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind;
 * It hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal;
 * If so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.


 * Israel is swallowed up;
 * Now are they become among the nations
 * As a vessel wherein is no value.
 * For they are gone up to Assyria,
 * Like a wild ass alone by himself;
 * Ephraim hath hired lovers.
 * Yea, though they hire among the nations,
 * Now will I gather them up;
 * And they begin to be minished
 * By reason of the burden of king and princes.
 * For Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin,
 * Yea, altars have been unto him to sin.
 * Though I write for him never so many things of My Law,
 * They are accounted as a stranger's.
 * As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me,
 * Let them sacrifice flesh and eat it,
 * For the accepteth them not.
 * Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins;
 * They shall return to Egypt.
 * For Israel hath forgotten his Maker,
 * And builded palaces,
 * And Judah hath multiplied fortified cities;
 * But I will send a fire upon his cities,
 * And it shall devour the castles thereof.


 * Rejoice not, O Israel, unto exultation, like the peoples,
 * For thou hast gone astray from thy God,
 * Thou hast loved a harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
 * The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
 * And the new wine shall fail her.
 * They shall not dwell in the land;
 * But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
 * And they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
 * They shall not pour out wine-offerings to the ,
 * Neither shall they be pleasing unto Him;
 * Their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners,
 * All that eat thereof shall be polluted;
 * For their bread shall be for their appetite,
 * It shall not come into the house of the.
 * What will ye do in the day of the appointed season,
 * And in the day of the feast of the ?
 * For, lo, they are gone away from destruction,
 * Yet Egypt shall gather them up,
 * Memphis shall bury them;
 * Their precious treasures of silver, nettles shall possess them,
 * Thorns shall be in their tents.
 * The days of visitation are come,