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15 Though I trained and strengthened their arms,
    they plot evil against me.
16 They return, but not upward.[a]
    They are like an unreliable bow.
    Their officials will fall by the sword because of their angry tongues.
    Because of this, they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:16 Or not for the better. The translation above is literal. Many translations suggest the emendations return to the Most High or turn to Baal.