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10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And they shall cease[a] for a little while
    from anointing[b] king and princes.

11 Because E′phraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands,
    they would be regarded as a strange thing.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:10 Gk: Heb begin
  2. Hosea 8:10 Gk: Heb burden

10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them together.(A)
They will begin to waste away(B)
    under the oppression of the mighty king.

11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
    these have become altars for sinning.(C)
12 I wrote for them the many things of my law,
    but they regarded them as something foreign.(D)

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