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I myself know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim—
    Israel is defiled.
Their deeds do not permit them
    to return them to God.
Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst,
    they do not know Yahweh.
The pride of Israel testifies against him,[a]
    and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt,
        and Judah stumbles with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:5 Literally “against his face;” see 7:10