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Israel Urged to Sow in Righteousness

11 “Ephraim, the well-trained heifer,
    loves to thresh grain,
so I will spare her neck.
    I will turn Ephraim into a pack animal.
Judah will pull the plow,
    and Jacob will turn up the fallow ground.
12 Sow in righteousness in your own interest,
    reap in gracious love,
        break up your own unprepared ground;
It is now time to inquire of[a] the Lord,
    until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.
13 You have plowed[b] evil;
    you have reaped unrighteousness;
        you have eaten the fruit of hypocrisy;
because you trusted in your own direction,
    and in the number of your mighty forces.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:12 Or to worship
  2. Hosea 10:13 Or fashioned