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14 They don’t cry to me from the heart,
        but they sob upon their beds;
    they fight[a] over grain and wine;
        they resist me.
15 It was I who gave them their strength,
        yet they plot evil against me.
16 They return, but not to the Most High;[b]
    they have become like a worthless bow;
        their officials will fall by the sword
        because of the rage of their tongues;
        in Egypt they will make fun of them.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:14 Or cut themselves
  2. Hosea 7:16 Heb uncertain
  3. Hosea 7:16 Or they will be scorned in the land of Egypt.

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