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Rh :All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them:
 * For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,
 * I will love them no more:
 * All their princes are revolters.
 * Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:
 * Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even 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.


 * is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
 * According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars;
 * According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
 * Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:
 * He shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
 * For now they shall say, We have no king,
 * Because we feared not the Lord;
 * What then should a king do to us?
 * They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: