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Since the days of Gibeah,
    you have sinned, O Israel,
    and there you have remained.
Did not war overtake
    the evildoers in Gibeah?
10 I have come to confront the rebels
    and to chastise them.
Nations shall mass against them
    to punish them for their two crimes.
11 Ephraim was a trained heifer
    that loved to thresh grain.
I myself laid a yoke
    upon her fair neck.
However, I will harness Ephraim;
    Judah will be forced to plow,
    and Jacob will harrow the land.

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