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10     I came and I chastised them;
Peoples will be gathered against them
    when I bind them to their two crimes.[a]
11 Ephraim was a trained heifer,
    that loved to thresh;
I myself laid a yoke
    upon her beautiful neck;
I will make Ephraim break ground, Judah must plow,
    Jacob must harrow for himself:
12 “Sow for yourselves justice,
    reap the reward of loyalty;
Break up for yourselves a new field,(A)
    for it is time to seek the Lord,
    till he comes and rains justice upon you.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:10 Two crimes: the allusion is not clear; a possible reference is the outrage described in Jgs 19.