Hosea 5 - 6
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v Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for w you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon x Tabor.
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And y the revolters z have gone deep into slaughter,
but a I will discipline all of them.
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b I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
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c Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For d the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
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e The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
Israel and f Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
f Judah also shall stumble with them.
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g With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
g but they will not find him;
h he has withdrawn from them.
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i They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
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j Blow the horn in k Gibeah,
the trumpet in l Ramah.
Sound the alarm at m Beth-aven;
we follow you, O Benjamin!
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Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
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The princes of Judah have become
like n those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
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Ephraim is o oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.
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But I am p like a moth to Ephraim,
and p like dry rot to the house of Judah.
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When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah q his wound,
then Ephraim went r to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.
s But he is not able to cure you
or heal q your wound.
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For I will be t like a lion to u Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of u Judah.
v I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
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w I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and x in their distress earnestly seek me.
Hosea 6
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"Come, let us y return to the Lord;
for z he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and a he will bind us up.
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After two days b he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
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c Let us know; c let us press on to know the Lord;
d his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us e as the showers,
f as the spring rains that water the earth."
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What shall I do with you, g O h Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O h Judah?
Your love is i like a morning cloud,
i like the dew that goes early away.
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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them j by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
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For k I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
l the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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But m like Adam they n transgressed the covenant;
o there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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p Gilead is a city of evildoers,
q tracked with blood.
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As robbers r lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to s Shechem;
they commit villainy.
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In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
t Ephraim's whoredom is there; u Israel is defiled.
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For you also, O u Judah, v a harvest is appointed,
when w I restore the fortunes of my people.
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Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 1:2
Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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Hosea 6:9
As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.
Hosea 9:8
The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
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Judges 4:6
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
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Hosea 9:15
Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
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Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Isaiah 29:15
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?
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Psalms 50:21
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
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Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins - you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
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Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
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Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
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Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Isaiah 1:11
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
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Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Isaiah 1:11
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
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Hosea 9:12
Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
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Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Jeremiah 4:5
Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!
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Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Hosea 10:9
From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth.
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Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
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Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Deuteronomy 28:33
A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
Amos 4:1
"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'
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Job 13:28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Job 13:28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Isaiah 1:5 - 6
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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Isaiah 1:5 - 6
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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Hosea 7:11
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.
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Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.
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Hosea 13:7
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
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Jeremiah 29:10 - 12
For thus says the Lord : When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
Ezekiel 6:9
Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Leviticus 26:40 - 42
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
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Isaiah 26:16
O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
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Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
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Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Hosea 13:7 - 8
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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Isaiah 30:26
Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
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Psalms 71:20
You who have made me see many troubles and cala...
Luke 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, ...
Luke 24:44
Then he said to them, "These are my words that ...
John 2:22
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his...
John 20:9
For as yet they did not understand the Scriptur...
1 Corinthians 15:4
That he was buried, that he was raised on the t...
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
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Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
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Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
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Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
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Hosea 6:10 - 11
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible t...
Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Ju...
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Isra...
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built pa...
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh...
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the ho...
Hosea 12:1 - 2
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east ...
Hosea 5:9 - 14
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of...
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Hosea 6:10 - 11
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible t...
Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Ju...
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Isra...
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built pa...
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh...
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the ho...
Hosea 12:1 - 2
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east ...
Hosea 5:9 - 14
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of...
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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
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Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 12:7
And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
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Hosea 2:20
I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
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Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
Job 31:33
If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
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Hosea 5:7
They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord ; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
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Hosea 12:11
If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
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Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
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Hosea 5:1
Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
Hosea 7:6
For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
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Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from m...
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated...
Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and...
Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their...
Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play...
Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. ...
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
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Joel 3:13
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
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Psalms 126:1
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Job 42:10
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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