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Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is certain.
10 
The princes of Judah are like those who [a]move a boundary marker;
I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water.(A)
11 
Ephraim is oppressed; he is broken and crushed by [divine] judgment,
Because he was determined to follow man’s command [b](vanities, filth, secular precepts).

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:10 I.e. like an official changing the laws of what is right and what is wrong by changing the legal standards.
  2. Hosea 5:11 “Vanities” is the rendering of The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament); “filth,” the rendering of the DSS.

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