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11.8 :My heart is turned within Me,
 * My compassions are kindled together.
 * I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger,
 * I will not return to destroy Ephraim,
 * For I am God, and not man,
 * The Holy One in the midst of thee,
 * And I will not come in fury.
 * They shall walk after the ,
 * Who shall roar like a lion;
 * For He shall roar,
 * And the children shall come trembling from the west.
 * They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt,
 * And as a dove out of the land of Assyria;
 * And I will make them to dwell in their houses,
 * Saith the.


 * Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies,
 * And the house of Israel with deceit;
 * And Judah is yet wayward towards God,
 * And towards the Holy One who is faithful.
 * Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind;
 * All the day he multiplieth lies and desolation;
 * And they make a covenant with Assyria,
 * And oil is carried into Egypt.
 * The hath also a controversy with Judah,
 * And will punish Jacob according to his ways,
 * According to his doings will He recompense him.
 * In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
 * And by his strength he strove with a godlike being;
 * So he strove with an angel, and prevailed;
 * He wept, and made supplication unto him;
 * At Beth-el he would find him,
 * And there he would speak with us.
 * But the, the God of hosts,
 * The is His name.
 * Therefore turn thou to thy God;
 * Keep mercy and justice,
 * And wait for thy God continually.
 * As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand,
 * He loveth to oppress.
 * And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich,
 * I have found me wealth;
 * In all my labours they shall find in me
 * No iniquity that were sin.'
 * But I am the thy God
 * From the land of Egypt;
 * I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents,
 * As in the days of the appointed season.
 * I have also spoken unto the prophets,
 * And I have multiplied visions;
 * And by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
 * If Gilead be given to iniquity
 * Becoming altogether vanity,
 * In Gilgal they sacrifice unto bullocks;
 * Yea, their altars shall be as heaps
 * In the furrows of the field.


 * And Jacob fled into the field of Aram,
 * And Israel served for a wife,
 * And for a wife he kept sheep.
 * And by a prophet the brought Israel up out of Egypt,
 * And by a prophet was he kept.
 * Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly;