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The high places of Aven[a] will be destroyed,
    the sin of Israel;
    thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars.
Then they will cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!”
    and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”(A)

War Because of Israel’s Wickedness

Since the days of Gibeah(B)
    you have sinned, Israel.
There they took their stand;
    will war not reach them in Gibeah?
Against a perverse people
10     I came and I chastised them;
Peoples will be gathered against them
    when I bind them to their two crimes.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:8 Aven: wickedness, first of all at Bethel (v. 5), but also at all the high places.
  2. 10:10 Two crimes: the allusion is not clear; a possible reference is the outrage described in Jgs 19.