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My heart is turned within Me,

My compassions are kindled together.

⁹I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger,

I will not return to destroy Ephraim,

For I am God, and not man,

The Holy One in the midst of thee,

And I will not come in fury.

¹⁰They shall walk after the Lord,

Who shall roar like a lion;

For He shall roar,

And the children shall come trembling from the west.

¹¹They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt,

And as a dove out of the land of Assyria;

And I will make them to dwell in their houses,

Saith the Lord.

 

12Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies,

And the house of Israel with deceit;

And Judah is yet wayward towards God,

And towards the Holy One who is faithful.

²Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind;

All the day he multiplieth lies and desolation;

And they make a covenant with Assyria,

And oil is carried into Egypt.

³The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah,

And will punish Jacob according to his ways,

According to his doings will He recompense him.

⁴In the womb he took his brother by the heel,

And by his strength he strove with a godlike being;

⁵So he strove with an angel, and prevailed;

He wept, and made supplication unto him;

At Beth-el he would find him,

And there he would speak with us.

⁶But the Lord, the God of hosts,

The Lord is His name.

⁷Therefore turn thou to thy God;

Keep mercy and justice,

And wait for thy God continually.

⁸As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand,

He loveth to oppress.

⁹And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich,

I have found me wealth;

In all my labours they shall find in me

No iniquity that were sin.'

¹⁰But I am the Lord thy God

From the land of Egypt;

I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents,

As in the days of the appointed season.

¹¹I have also spoken unto the prophets,

And I have multiplied visions;

And by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.

¹²If Gilead be given to iniquity

Becoming altogether vanity,

In Gilgal they sacrifice unto bullocks;

Yea, their altars shall be as heaps

In the furrows of the field.

 

¹³And Jacob fled into the field of Aram,

And Israel served for a wife,

And for a wife he kept sheep.

¹⁴And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt,

And by a prophet was he kept.

¹⁵Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly;

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