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My people are cut off for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected the knowledge, I also rejected you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will forget your sons, even I.

And it will be, Like people, like priest. And I will visit their ways on them and repay them for their deeds.

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have ceased heeding Jehovah.

My people seek advice by their wooden idols , and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God.

I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrustdown.

For Israel rebels, like a rebellious heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a roomy place.

Hear this, O priests, and attend, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

I know Ephraim, and Israel has not hidden from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have fornicated; Israel is defiled.

Their doings will not give them to turn to their God. For the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they do not know Jehovah.

They have acted treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought forth strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions.

For I am to Ephraim as the lion, and as the young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go; I take away, and no one rescues.

Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way to Shechem; for they have done wickedness.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evil of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.

For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! For they have transgressed against Me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds. They gather themselves for grain and wine; they turn against Me.

They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not know. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.