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All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.(A)

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(A)
    each of us has turned to our own way;(B)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity(C) of us all.

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20 For long ago you broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds,
    and you said, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you sprawled and prostituted yourself.(A)

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20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(A)
    and tore off your bonds;(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(C)
Indeed, on every high hill(D)
    and under every spreading tree(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(F)

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A Call to Repentance

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?(A)

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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23 Truly the hills are[a] a delusion,
    a tumult on the mountains.
Truly in the Lord our God
    is the salvation of Israel.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.23 Gk Syr Vg: Heb Truly from the hills is

23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills(A)
    and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
    is the salvation(B) of Israel.

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11 Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even in my house I have found their wickedness,
            says the Lord.(A)
12 Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    in the year of their punishment,
            says the Lord.(B)
13 In the prophets of Samaria
    I saw a disgusting thing:
they prophesied by Baal
    and led my people Israel astray.(C)
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a more shocking thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from wickedness;
all of them have become like Sodom to me
    and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.(D)

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11 “Both prophet and priest are godless;(A)
    even in my temple(B) I find their wickedness,”
declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(C)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,(D)
declares the Lord.

13 “Among the prophets of Samaria
    I saw this repulsive thing:
They prophesied by Baal(E)
    and led my people Israel astray.(F)
14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen something horrible:(G)
    They commit adultery and live a lie.(H)
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,(I)
    so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.(J)
They are all like Sodom(K) to me;
    the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”(L)

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12 Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without humans or animals, and in all its towns there shall again be pasture for shepherds resting their flocks.(A)

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12 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate(A) and without people or animals(B)—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.(C)

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15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God.

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15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down,(A) declares the Sovereign Lord.(B)

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16 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.(A)

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16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up(A) the injured and strengthen the weak,(B) but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.(C) I will shepherd the flock with justice.(D)

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