11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in (A)Halah, and on the (B)Habor, (C)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of (A)Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of (B)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them (C)to Halah, (D)Habor, Hara, and (E)the river Gozan, to this day.

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12 (A)Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, (B)Gozan, (C)Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

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The Fall of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (A)captured Samaria, (B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (D)Gozan, and in the cities of (E)the Medes.

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43 You took up the tent of (A)Moloch
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

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25 (A)“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 (B)You (C)shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, 27 (D)and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is (E)the God of hosts.

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(A)Seek the Lord and live,
    (B)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
    and it devour, with none to quench it for (C)Bethel,

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Seek the Lord and Live

Hear this word that I (A)take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

“Fallen, no more to rise,
    is (B)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that went out a thousand
    shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out a hundred
    shall have ten left
    to the house of Israel.”

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They shall not remain in (A)the land of the Lord,
    but (B)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and (C)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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(A)Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as (B)a useless vessel.
For (C)they have gone up to Assyria,
    (D)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.

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11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and (A)her idols
    (B)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

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Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!

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and all the people will know,
    (A)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
    who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
10 “The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”
11 But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
    and stirs up his enemies.
12 (B)The Syrians on the east and (C)the Philistines on the west
    devour Israel with open mouth.
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

13 The people (E)did not turn to him who struck them,
    nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
14 So the Lord cut off from Israel (F)head and tail,
    palm branch and reed in one day—
15 (G)the elder and honored man is the head,
    and (H)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not (I)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (J)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks (K)folly.[a]
(L)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burns like (M)a fire;
    it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
    and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    the land is scorched,
and (N)the people are like fuel for the fire;
    (O)no one spares another.
20 (P)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
    and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(Q)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
    together they are (R)against Judah.
(S)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things

(A)for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the (B)wealth of (C)Damascus and the spoil of (D)Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

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For the head of Syria is (A)Damascus,
    and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

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11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

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