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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].

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   1   Hear this, you priests,
and listen, all Israel; let the royal house mark my words.
    Sentence is passed on you;
  for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
  and a net spread out on Tabor.
   2   The rebels! they have shown base ingratitude,
  but I will punish them all.
   3   I have cared for Ephraim
  and I have not neglected Israel;
  but now Ephraim has played the wanton
    and Israel has defiled himself.
4   Their misdeeds have barred their way back to their God;
    for a wanton spirit is in them,
    and they care nothing for the Lord.
   5   Israel's arrogance cries out against him;
   ^note Ephraim's guilt is his undoing,
  and Judah no less is undone.
   6   They go with sacrifices of sheep and cattle
  to seek the Lord, but do not find him.
    He has withdrawn himself from them;
     7   for they have been unfaithful to him,
  and their sons are bastards.
Now an invader shall devour their fields.
   8   Blow the trumpet in Gibeah,
    the horn in Ramah,
    raise the battle-cry in Beth-aven:
    ‘Benjamin, we are with you!’
9   On the tribes of Israel I have proclaimed this unalterable doom:
on the day of punishment Ephraim shall be laid waste.
10   The rulers of Judah act like men who move their neighbour's boundary;
on them will I pour out my wrath like a flood.
   11   Ephraim is an oppressor trampling on justice,
  doggedly pursuing what is worthless.
   12   But I am a festering sore to Ephraim,
    a canker to the house of Judah.
   13   So when Ephraim found that he was sick,

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God's case against Israel
    Judah that he was covered with sores,
  Ephraim went to Assyria,
  he went in haste to the Great King;
  but he has no power to cure you
  or to heal your sores.
   14   Yes indeed, I will be fierce as a panther to Ephraim,
    fierce as a lion to Judah—
  I will maul the prey and go,
  carry it off beyond hope of rescue—I, the Lord.
   15   I will go away and return to my place
until in their horror they seek me,
  and look earnestly for me in their distress.

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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].