The Consequence of Historical Apostasy

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As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They--they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

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Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

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For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless--without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

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Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons.

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Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

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All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates.

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Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.

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Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!

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