New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Put the trumpet to your lips!
A note vulture hovers over the sanctuary of the Lord:
they have broken my covenant
and rebelled against my instruction.
2 They cry to me for help:
‘We know thee, God of Israel.’ note
3 But Israel is utterly loathsome;
and therefore he shall run before the enemy.
4 They make kings, but not by my will;
they set up officers, but without my knowledge;
they have made themselves idols of their silver and gold. note
5 Your calf-gods stink, note O Samaria;
my anger flares up against them.
Long will it be before they prove innocent.
6 For what sort of a god is this bull?
It is no god,
a craftsman made it;
the calf of Samaria will be broken in fragments.
7 Israel sows the wind and reaps the whirlwind;
there are no heads on the standing corn, it yields no grain;
and, if it yielded any, strangers would swallow it up.
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God's case against Israel
8 Israel is now swallowed up,
lost among the nations,
a worthless nothing.
9 For, like a wild ass that has left the herd,
they have run to Assyria.
Ephraim has bargained for lovers;
10 and, because they have bargained among the nations,
I will now round them up,
and then they will soon abandon
this setting up of kings and note princes.
11 For Ephraim in his sin has multiplied altars,
altars have become his sin.
12 Though I give him countless rules in writing,
they are treated as invalid.
13 Though they sacrifice flesh as offerings to me and eat them,
I, note the Lord, will not accept them.
Their guilt will be remembered
and their sins punished.
They shall go back to Egypt,
or in Assyria they shall eat unclean food. note
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces,
Judah has multiplied walled cities;
but I will set fire to his cities,
and it shall devour his castles.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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