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The Holy Tanakh: Hosea: Chapter 13
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Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world? Shall I redeem them from death? Ho, thy plagues, O death! Ho, thy destruction, O netherworld! Repentance be hid from Mine eyes!
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For though he be fruitful among the reed-plants, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all precious vessels.
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The Holy Tanakh: Hosea: Chapter 14
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Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she hath rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
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Return, O Israel, unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
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Take with you words, and return unto the Lord; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.
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Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods; for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.'
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I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for Mine anger is turned away from him.
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I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon.
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They that dwell under his shadow shall again make corn to grow, and shall blossom as the vine; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
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Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found.
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Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just do walk in them; but transgressors do stumble therein.
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The Holy Tanakh: Joel: Chapter 1
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THE WORD of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
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That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
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For a people is come up upon my land, mighty, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
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He hath laid my vine waste, and blasted my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it down, the branches thereof are made white.
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests mourn, even the Lord'S ministers.
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