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9.7 :The days of recompense are come,
 * Israel shall know it.
 * The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!
 * For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.
 * Ephraim is a watchman with my God;
 * As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways,
 * And enmity in the house of his God.
 * They have deeply corrupted themselves,
 * As in the days of Gibeah;
 * He will remember their iniquity,
 * He will punish their sins.


 * I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness,
 * I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season,
 * But so soon as they came to Baal-peor,
 * They separated themselves unto the shameful thing,
 * And became detestable like that which they loved.
 * As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird;
 * There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
 * Yea, though they bring up their children,
 * Yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left;
 * Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
 * Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place;
 * But Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
 * Give them, O, whatsoever Thou wilt give;
 * Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
 * All their wickedness is in Gilgal,
 * For there I hated them;
 * Because of the wickedness of their doings
 * I will drive them out of My house;
 * I will love them no more,
 * All their princes are rebellious.
 * Ephraim is smitten,
 * Their root is dried up,
 * They shall bear no fruit;
 * Yea, though they bring forth,
 * Yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
 * My God will cast them away,
 * Because they did not hearken unto Him;
 * And they shall be wanderers among the nations.


 * Israel was a luxuriant vine,
 * Which put forth fruit freely:
 * As his fruit increased,
 * He increased his altars;
 * The more goodly his land was,
 * The more goodly were his pillars.
 * Their heart is divided;
 * Now shall they bear their guilt;
 * He will break down their altars,
 * He will spoil their pillars.
 * Surely now shall they say:
 * 'We have no king;
 * For we feared not the ;
 * And the king, what can he do for us?'
 * They speak words,
 * They swear falsely, they make covenants;
 * Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock
 * In the furrows of the field.
 * The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in dread
 * For the calves of Beth-aven;
 * For the people thereof shall mourn over it,
 * And the priests thereof shall tremble for it,
 * For its glory, because it is departed from it.
 * It also shall be carried unto Assyria,