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For it also came from Israel: The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.

They shall not live in the land of Jehovah. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

As when I looked toward Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the slayer.

And Ephraim is a trained heifer, loving to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck; I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break clods for him.

I also taught Ephraim to go; He took them on His arms. But they did not know that I healed them.

He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Ephraim circles around Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still rules with God and is faithful with the saints.

When Ephraim spoke trembling, he was lifted up in Israel. But he offended in Baal, and he died.

O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me.

Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

But I will remove the northern army far from you, and I will drive him into a dry and desolated land with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea. Andhis stench shall come up, and his ill odorshall come up, because he was doing great things.

And Jehovah roars from Zion, and He gives His voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth quake. But Jehovah is a refuge for His people and a fortress to the sons of Israel.

But Judah will dwell forever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.

But I will send a fire against the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

But I will send a fire against the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour its palaces.

But I will send a fire against the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour its palaces.

But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

But I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with a war cry in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the windstorm.

But I will send a fire against Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the ram's horn.