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Rh :For a present to King Contentious;
 * Ephraim shall receive shame,
 * And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
 * As for Samaria, her king is cut off,
 * As foam upon the water.
 * The high places also of Aven shall be destroyed,
 * Even the sin of Israel.
 * The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars;
 * And they shall say to the mountains: 'Cover us',
 * And to the hills: 'Fall on us.'


 * From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel;
 * There they stood;
 * No battle was to overtake them in Gibeah,
 * Nor the children of arrogancy.
 * When it is My desire, I will chastise them;
 * And the peoples shall be gathered against them,
 * When they are yoked to their two rings.
 * And Ephraim is a heifer well broken,
 * That loveth to thresh,
 * And I have passed over upon her fair neck;
 * I will make Ephraim to ride, Judah shall plow,
 * Jacob shall break his clods.
 * Sow to yourselves according to righteousness,
 * Reap according to mercy,
 * Break up your fallow ground;
 * For it is time to seek the ,
 * Till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you.
 * Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity,
 * Ye have eaten the fruit of lies;
 * For thou didst trust in thy way,
 * In the multitude of thy mighty men.
 * Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy hosts,
 * And all thy fortresses shall be spoiled,
 * As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle;
 * The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
 * So hath Beth-el done unto you
 * Because of your great wickedness;
 * At daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.


 * When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
 * And out of Egypt I called My son.
 * The more they called them, the more they went from them;
 * They sacrificed unto the Baalim,
 * And offered to graven images.
 * And I, I taught Ephraim to walk,
 * Taking them by their arms;
 * But they knew not that I healed them.
 * I drew them with cords of a man,
 * With bands of love;
 * And I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws,
 * And I fed them gently.
 * He shall not return into the land of Egypt,
 * But the Assyrian shall be his king,
 * Because they refused to return.
 * And the sword shall fall upon his cities,
 * And shall consume his bars, and devour them,
 * Because of their own counsels.


 * And My people are in suspense about returning to Me;
 * And though they call them upwards,
 * None at all will lift himself up.
 * How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?
 * How shall I surrender thee, Israel?
 * How shall I make thee as Admah?
 * How shall I set thee as Zeboim?