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The high places(A) of Aven, the sin of Israel,(B)
will be destroyed;
thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.(C)
They will say to the mountains,(D) ‘Cover us! ’
and to the hills, ‘Fall on us! ’(E)

Israel’s Defeat because of Sin

Israel, you have sinned
since the days of Gibeah;(F)
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?
10 I will discipline(G) them at my discretion;(H)
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bondage[a]
for their double iniquity.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:10 LXX, Syr, Vg read against them when they are disciplined