15 Many will stumble over these;(A)
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.

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15 Many of them will stumble;(A)
    they will fall and be broken,
    they will be snared and captured.”

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They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.[a](A)
I will lead them to wadis filled with water,
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,(B)
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 31:9 LXX; MT reads supplications

They will come with weeping;(A)
    they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead(B) them beside streams of water(C)
    on a level(D) path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father,(E)
    and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

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19 They will throw their silver into the streets,
and their gold will seem like something filthy.(A)
Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
They will not satisfy their appetites
or fill their stomachs,
for these were the stumbling blocks(C)
that brought about their iniquity.

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19 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,(A)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
It will not satisfy(C) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble(D) into sin.(E)

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