God’s Word
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“Listen to this, you priests!

The rebels are deep in slaughter,

I know Ephraim,

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God,

The pride of Israel testifies to his face.

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD,

They are unfaithful to the LORD;

“Blow the cornet in Gibeah,

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.

Ephraim is oppressed,

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,

“When Ephraim saw his sickness,

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,

I will go and return to my place,