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-# General Information:
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-Yahweh is speaking in verse 16. Hosea begins speaking in verse 17.
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 # Ephraim is diseased, and their root is dried up; they bear no fruit
 
-Yahweh speaks of the people of Israel as if they were a diseased tree that does not produce fruit and is ready to be cut down. This is a statement that the people have become weak, and that soon their enemies will come and defeat them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+Yahweh speaks of the people of Israel as if they were a diseased tree that does not produce fruit and is ready to be cut down. This is a statement that the people have become weak, and that soon their enemies will come and defeat them.