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VIII] :It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:
 * If so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
 * Israel is swallowed up:
 * Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
 * For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
 * Ephraim hath hired lovers.
 * Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them,
 * And they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
 * Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,
 * Altars shall be unto him to sin.
 * I have written to him the great things of my law,
 * But they were counted as a strange thing.
 * They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it;
 * But the Lord accepteth them not;
 * Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:
 * They shall return to Egypt.
 * For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
 * And Judah hath multiphed fenced cities:
 * But I will send a fire upon his cities,
 * And it shall devour the palaces thereof.