1Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

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Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:1, Joel 2:12, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:12

2Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

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Hebrews 13:15, Hebrews 13:15, Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Psalms 51:2

3Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

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Psalms 68:5, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 33:17

4Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

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Isaiah 57:18, Isaiah 57:18, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:1, Zephaniah 3:17

5I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

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Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 27:6, Isaiah 27:6, Ephesians 3:17

6I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

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Psalms 52:8, Psalms 52:8, Psalms 80:9, Psalms 80:11, Matthew 13:31

7His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

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Psalms 91:1, Psalms 91:1, Song of Solomon 6:11, Hosea 14:5, Psalms 138:7

8They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

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Job 34:32, Job 34:32, James 1:17, Luke 15:20, 1 Peter 4:3

9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

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Proverbs 10:29, Proverbs 10:29, Psalms 107:43, Psalms 107:43, John 8:47

10Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

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