- Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.
- Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you.
- But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors,
- the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated-- as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
- Thus will it happen to you, O Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
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- 以法莲是驯良的母牛犊,喜爱踹谷,我却将轭加在它肥美的颈项上,我要使以法莲拉套(或作被骑)。犹大必耕田,雅各必耙地。
- 你们要为自己栽种公义,就能收割慈爱。现今正是寻求耶和华的时候,你们要开垦荒地,等他临到,使公义如雨降在你们身上。
- 你们耕种的是奸恶,收割的是罪孽,吃的是谎话的果子。因你倚靠自己的行为,仰赖勇士众多。
- 所以在这民中必有哄囔之声,你一切的保障必被拆毁,就如沙勒幔在争战的日子拆毁伯亚比勒,将其中的母子一同摔死。
- 因他们的大恶,伯特利必使你们遭遇如此。到了黎明,以色列的王必全然灭绝。
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