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Hosea 5:2

New American Bible - revised edition

a pit dug deep in Shittim. Now I will discipline them all.

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All their misfortune began in Gilgal; yes, there I rejected them. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.

Ah! You who would hide a plan too deep for the Lord! Who work in the dark, saying, “Who sees us, who knows us?”

Like brigands lying in wait is the band of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, indeed they commit a monstrous crime.

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

For this reason I struck them down through the prophets, I killed them by the words of my mouth; my judgment shines forth like the light.

Swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, bronze and iron, all of them, destroyers they are.

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.




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