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Hosea 10
¹⁴ Therefore a tumult will arise among your people, And all your fortresses will be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle, When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
¹⁵ Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.
Hosea 11
¹ When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
² The more they called them, The more they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols.
³ Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
⁴ I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.
⁵ They will not return to the land of Egypt; But Assyria-he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me.
⁶ The sword will whirl against their cities, And will demolish their gate bars And consume them because of their counsels.
⁷ So My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him.
⁸ How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled.
⁹ I will not execute My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, And I will not come in wrath.