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For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit adulterie, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heede to ye Lord.

My people aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornications hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God.

I will not visite your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses when they are whores: for they themselues are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doeth not vnderstand, shall fall.

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Iudah sinne: come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither goe ye vp to Beth-auen, nor sweare, The Lord liueth.

For Israel is rebellious as an vnruly heyfer. Nowe the Lord will feede them as a lambe in a large place.

Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.

I knowe Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for nowe, O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.

They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

They shall goe with their sheepe, and with their bullockes to seeke the Lord: but they shall not finde him: for he hath withdrawne himselfe from them.

They haue transgressed against the Lord: for they haue begotte strange children: now shall a moneth deuoure them with their portions.

Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.

The princes of Iudah were like them that remoue the bounde: therefore will I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.

Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.

For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.

I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.

Come, and let vs returne to the Lord: for he hath spoyled, and he will heale vs: he hath wounded vs, and he will binde vs vp.

After two dayes will he reuiue vs, and in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.

Then shall we haue knowledge, and indeuour our selues to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come vnto vs as the raine, and as the latter raine vnto the earth.

O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, how shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloude, and as the morning dewe it goeth away.

Therefore haue I cut downe by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements were as the light that goeth forth.

For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt offrings.

But they like men haue transgressed the couenant: there haue they trespassed against me.

I haue seene vileny in the house of Israel: there is ye whoredome of Ephraim: Israel is defiled.

Yea, Iudah hath set a plant for thee, whiles I woulde returne ye captiuitie of my people.

When I woulde haue healed Israel, then the iniquitie of Ephraim was discouered, and the wickednesse of Samaria: for they haue dealt falsly: and the theefe commeth in, and the robber spoyleth without.