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X] :Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
 * The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven:
 * For the people thereof shall mourn over it,
 * And the priests thereof that rejoiced on it,
 * For the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
 * It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb:
 * Ephraim shall receive shame,
 * And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
 * As for Samaria, her king is cut off
 * As the foam upon the water.
 * The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:
 * The thorn and the thistle shall come upon their altars;
 * And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us;
 * And to the hills, Fall on us.
 * O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood:
 * The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
 * It is in my desire that I should chastise them;
 * And the people shall be gathered against them,
 * When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
 * And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn;