Hosea 8
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and rebelled against my law.
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They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
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The enemy will pursue him.
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that they may be cut off.
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How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
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indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
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Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
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they became for him altars for sinning.
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but they were regarded as a strange thing.
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They will return to Egypt.
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and it will devour its fortresses.”