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“From the time of Gibeah,
    you have sinned, Israel;
There they took their stand;
    the battle at Gibeah could not subdue the lawless.
10 When I’m ready, I will chasten them;
    and the people will gather against them,
        to imprison them for their two unrighteous acts.”[a]

Israel Urged to Sow in Righteousness

11 “Ephraim, the well-trained heifer,
    loves to thresh grain,
so I will spare her neck.
    I will turn Ephraim into a pack animal.
Judah will pull the plow,
    and Jacob will turn up the fallow ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:10 So LXX. MT reads two eyes