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Hosea 11:7

New American Bible - revised edition

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

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‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth that I may fill it.’

From their own ways turncoats are sated, from their own actions, the loyal.

The wicked, when spared, do not learn justice; in an upright land they act perversely, and do not see the majesty of the Lord.

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Then the Lord said to me: Rebel Israel is more just than traitor Judah.

From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Why then do these people resist with persistent rebellion? Why do they cling to deception, refuse to turn back?

The more I called them, the farther they went from me, Sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to idols.

Assyria will not save us, nor will we mount horses; We will never again say, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion.”

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.




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