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The Book of Hosea
Chapter 1
001:001 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea,
the son of Beeri,
in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
of
Judah, and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel.
001:002 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea.
And the LORD
said to Hosea, Go,
take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and
children of whoredoms: for the
land hath committed great
whoredom, departing from the LORD.
001:003 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of
Diblaim; which
conceived, and bare
him a son.
001:004 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name
Jezreel; for yet a
little while,
and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon
the
house of Jehu, and will cause
to cease the kingdom of the
house
of Israel.
001:005 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I
will break the
bow of Israel, in
the valley of Jezreel.
001:006 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter.
And God said
unto him, Call her
name Loruhamah: for I will no more
have
mercy upon the house of
Israel; but I will utterly take
them
away.
001:007 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and will save
them by the LORD
their God, and will not save them by bow,
nor
by sword, nor by battle, by
horses, nor by horsemen.
001:008 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she
conceived, and bare a
son.
001:009 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are
not my people,
and I will not be
your God.
001:010 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall
be as the sand
of the sea, which
cannot be measured nor numbered; and
it
shall come to pass, that in the
place where it was said unto
them,
Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto
them,
Ye are the sons of the
living God.
001:011 Then shall the children of Judah and the
children of Israel be
gathered
together, and appoint themselves one head, and
they
shall come up out of the
land: for great shall be the day
of
Jezreel.
002:001 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
002:002 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my
wife, neither
am I her husband:
let her therefore put away her whoredoms
out
of her sight, and her
adulteries from between her breasts;
002:003 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the
day that she was
born, and make
her as a wilderness, and set her like a
dry
land, and slay her with
thirst.
002:004 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for
they be the
children of
whoredoms.
002:005 For their mother hath played the harlot: she
that conceived
them hath done
shamefully: for she said, I will go after
my
lovers, that give me my bread
and my water, my wool and my
flax,
mine oil and my drink.
002:006 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with
thorns, and
make a wall, that she
shall not find her paths.
002:007 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she
shall not
overtake them; and she
shall seek them, but shall not
find
them: then shall she say, I
will go and return to my first
husband; for then was it better with me than now.
002:008 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and
wine, and oil,
and multiplied her
silver and gold, which they prepared
for
Baal.
002:009 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn
in the time
thereof, and my wine
in the season thereof, and will
recover
my wool and my flax given
to cover her nakedness.
002:010 And now will I discover her lewdness in the
sight of her
lovers, and none
shall deliver her out of mine hand.
002:011 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her
feast days, her
new moons, and her
sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
002:012 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
whereof she
hath said, These are
my rewards that my lovers have given
me:
and I will make them a forest,
and the beasts of the field
shall
eat them.
002:013 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,
wherein she
burned incense to
them, and she decked herself with
her
earrings and her jewels, and
she went after her lovers, and
forgat me, saith the LORD.
002:014 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring
her into the
wilderness, and speak
comfortably unto her.
002:015 And I will give her her vineyards from thence,
and the valley
of Achor for a door
of hope: and she shall sing there, as
in
the days of her youth, and as
in the day when she came up out
of
the land of Egypt.
002:016 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD,
that thou shalt
call me Ishi; and
shalt call me no more Baali.
002:017 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of
her mouth, and
they shall no more
be remembered by their name.
002:018 And in that day will I make a covenant for them
with the
beasts of the field and
with the fowls of heaven, and with
the
creeping things of the ground:
and I will break the bow and
the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make
them
to lie down safely.
002:019 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I
will betroth
thee unto me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and
in
lovingkindness, and in
mercies.
002:020 I will even betroth thee unto me in
faithfulness: and thou
shalt know
the LORD.
002:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will
hear, saith the
LORD, I will hear
the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
002:022 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine,
and the oil;
and they shall hear
Jezreel.
002:023 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I
will have mercy
upon her that had
not obtained mercy; and I will say to
them
which were not my people,
Thou art my people; and they shall
say, Thou art my God.
003:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman
beloved of
her friend, yet an
adulteress, according to the love of
the
LORD toward the children of
Israel, who look to other gods,
and love flagons of wine.
003:002 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of
silver, and for an
homer of
barley, and an half homer of barley:
003:003 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me
many days; thou
shalt not play the
harlot, and thou shalt not be for
another
man: so will I also be for
thee.
003:004 For the children of Israel shall abide many days
without a
king, and without a
prince, and without a sacrifice,
and
without an image, and without
an ephod, and without teraphim:
003:005 Afterward shall the children of Israel return,
and seek the
LORD their God, and
David their king; and shall fear the
LORD
and his goodness in the
latter days.
004:001 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of
Israel: for the LORD
hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
because
there is no truth, nor
mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
land.
004:002 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and
stealing, and
committing adultery,
they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
004:003 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one
that dwelleth
therein shall
languish, with the beasts of the field, and
with
the fowls of heaven; yea, the
fishes of the sea also shall be
taken away.
004:004 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for
thy people are
as they that strive
with the priest.
004:005 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the
prophet also
shall fall with thee
in the night, and I will destroy
thy
mother.
004:006 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou
hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou
shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law
of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
004:007 As they were increased, so they sinned against
me: therefore
will I change their
glory into shame.
004:008 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set
their heart on
their iniquity.
004:009 And there shall be, like people, like priest:
and I will
punish them for their
ways, and reward them their doings.
004:010 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they
shall commit
whoredom, and shall
not increase: because they have left
off
to take heed to the LORD.
004:011 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
004:012 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their
staff
declareth unto them: for the
spirit of whoredoms hath caused
them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under
their
God.
004:013 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,
and burn
incense upon the hills,
under oaks and poplars and elms,
because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your
daughters
shall commit whoredom,
and your spouses shall commit adultery.
004:014 I will not punish your daughters when they
commit whoredom,
nor your spouses
when they commit adultery: for themselves
are
separated with whores, and
they sacrifice with harlots:
therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
004:015 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let
not Judah
offend; and come not ye
unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to
Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
004:016 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer:
now the LORD
will feed them as a
lamb in a large place.
004:017 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
004:018 Their drink is sour: they have committed
whoredom continually:
her rulers
with shame do love, Give ye.
004:019 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and
they shall be
ashamed because of
their sacrifices.
005:001 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house
of Israel; and
give ye ear, O
house of the king; for judgment is toward
you,
because ye have been a snare
on Mizpah, and a net spread upon
Tabor.
005:002 And the revolters are profound to make
slaughter, though I
have been a
rebuker of them all.
005:003 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:
for now, O
Ephraim, thou
committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
005:004 They will not frame their doings to turn unto
their God: for
the spirit of
whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they
have
not known the LORD.
005:005 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his
face: therefore
shall Israel and
Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah
also
shall fall with them.
005:006 They shall go with their flocks and with their
herds to seek
the LORD; but they
shall not find him; he hath
withdrawn
himself from them.
005:007 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD:
for they have
begotten strange
children: now shall a month devour them
with
their portions.
005:008 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in
Ramah: cry
aloud at Bethaven,
after thee, O Benjamin.
005:009 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:
among the
tribes of Israel have I
made known that which shall surely be.
005:010 The princes of Judah were like them that remove
the bound:
therefore I will pour
out my wrath upon them like water.
005:011 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,
because he
willingly walked after
the commandment.
005:012 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and
to the house
of Judah as
rottenness.
005:013 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his
wound, then
went Ephraim to the
Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb:
yet
could he not heal you, nor
cure you of your wound.
005:014 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a
young lion to
the house of Judah:
I, even I, will tear and go away; I
will
take away, and none shall
rescue him.
005:015 I will go and return to my place, till they
acknowledge their
offence, and
seek my face: in their affliction they will
seek
me early.
006:001 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he
hath torn, and
he will heal us; he
hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
006:002 After two days will he revive us: in the third
day he will
raise us up, and we
shall live in his sight.
006:003 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the
LORD: his
going forth is prepared
as the morning; and he shall come
unto
us as the rain, as the latter
and former rain unto the earth.
006:004 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah,
what shall I do
unto thee? for
your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as
the
early dew it goeth away.
006:005 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I
have slain them
by the words of my
mouth: and thy judgments are as the
light
that goeth forth.
006:006 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the
knowledge of
God more than burnt
offerings.
006:007 But they like men have transgressed the
covenant: there have
they dealt
treacherously against me.
006:008 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and
is polluted
with blood.
006:009 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the
company of
priests murder in the
way by consent: for they commit
lewdness.
006:010 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of
Israel: there is
the whoredom of
Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
006:011 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee,
when I
returned the captivity of
my people.
007:001 When I would have healed Israel, then the
iniquity of Ephraim
was
discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they
commit
falsehood; and the thief
cometh in, and the troop of
robbers
spoileth without.
007:002 And they consider not in their hearts that I
remember all
their wickedness: now
their own doings have beset them
about;
they are before my
face.
007:003 They make the king glad with their wickedness,
and the princes
with their
lies.
007:004 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by
the baker, who
ceaseth from
raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until
it
be leavened.
007:005 In the day of our king the princes have made him
sick with
bottles of wine; he
stretched out his hand with scorners.
007:006 For they have made ready their heart like an
oven, whiles they
lie in wait:
their baker sleepeth all the night; in
the
morning it burneth as a
flaming fire.
007:007 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured
their judges;
all their kings are
fallen: there is none among them
that
calleth unto me.
007:008 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
Ephraim is a
cake not turned.
007:009 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he
knoweth it not:
yea, gray hairs
are here and there upon him, yet he
knoweth
not.
007:010 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face:
and they do
not return to the LORD
their God, nor seek him for all this.
007:011 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart:
they call to
Egypt, they go to
Assyria.
007:012 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon
them; I will
bring them down as
the fowls of the heaven; I will
chastise
them, as their
congregation hath heard.
007:013 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:
destruction unto
them! because
they have transgressed against me: though I
have
redeemed them, yet they have
spoken lies against me.
007:014 And they have not cried unto me with their
heart, when they
howled upon their
beds: they assemble themselves for corn
and
wine, and they rebel against
me.
007:015 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms,
yet do they
imagine mischief
against me.
007:016 They return, but not to the most High: they are
like a
deceitful bow: their
princes shall fall by the sword for
the
rage of their tongue: this
shall be their derision in the
land
of Egypt.
008:001 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as
an eagle
against the house of the
LORD, because they have
transgressed
my covenant, and
trespassed against my law.
008:002 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
008:003 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the
enemy shall
pursue him.
008:004 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have
made princes,
and I knew it not:
of their silver and their gold have
they
made them idols, that they
may be cut off.
008:005 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine
anger is kindled
against them: how
long will it be ere they attain to
innocency?
008:006 For from Israel was it also: the workman made
it; therefore it
is not God: but
the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
008:007 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap
the
whirlwind: it hath no stalk;
the bud shall yield no meal: if
so
be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
008:008 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among
the Gentiles
as a vessel wherein
is no pleasure.
008:009 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass
alone by himself:
Ephraim hath
hired lovers.
008:010 Yea, though they have hired among the nations,
now will I
gather them, and they
shall sorrow a little for the burden
of
the king of princes.
008:011 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,
altars shall be
unto him to
sin.
008:012 I have written to him the great things of my
law, but they
were counted as a
strange thing.
008:013 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine
offerings, and
eat it; but the
LORD accepteth them not; now will he
remember
their iniquity, and visit
their sins: they shall return to
Egypt.
008:014 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and
buildeth temples; and
Judah hath
multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a
fire
upon his cities, and it shall
devour the palaces thereof.
009:001 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:
for thou hast
gone a whoring from
thy God, thou hast loved a reward
upon
every cornfloor.
009:002 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
and the new
wine shall fail in
her.
009:003 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but
Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and
they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
009:004 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,
neither shall
they be pleasing
unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto
them
as the bread of mourners; all
that eat thereof shall be
polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come
into
the house of the LORD.
009:005 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the
day of the feast
of the LORD?
009:006 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction:
Egypt shall
gather them up,
Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant
places
for their silver, nettles
shall possess them: thorns shall
be
in their tabernacles.
009:007 The days of visitation are come, the days of
recompence are
come; Israel shall
know it: the prophet is a fool,
the
spiritual man is mad, for the
multitude of thine iniquity, and
the great hatred.
009:008 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the
prophet is a
snare of a fowler in
all his ways, and hatred in the house
of
his God.
009:009 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the
days of
Gibeah: therefore he will
remember their iniquity, he will
visit their sins.
009:010 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I
saw your
fathers as the firstripe
in the fig tree at her first time:
but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto
that
shame; and their abominations
were according as they loved.
009:011 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like
a bird, from
the birth, and from
the womb, and from the conception.
009:012 Though they bring up their children, yet will I
bereave them,
that there shall not
be a man left: yea, woe also to them
when
I depart from them!
009:013 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a
pleasant place: but
Ephraim shall
bring forth his children to the murderer.
009:014 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give
them a
miscarrying womb and dry
breasts.
009:015 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I
hated them: for
the wickedness of
their doings I will drive them out of
mine
house, I will love them no
more: all their princes are
revolters.
009:016 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they
shall bear no
fruit: yea, though
they bring forth, yet will I slay even
the
beloved fruit of their
womb.
009:017 My God will cast them away, because they did not
hearken unto
him: and they shall
be wanderers among the nations.
010:001 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit
unto himself:
according to the
multitude of his fruit he hath increased
the
altars; according to the
goodness of his land they have
made
goodly images.
010:002 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found
faulty: he
shall break down their
altars, he shall spoil their images.
010:003 For now they shall say, We have no king, because
we feared not
the LORD; what then
should a king do to us?
010:004 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in
making a covenant:
thus judgment
springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of
the
field.
010:005 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of
the calves of
Bethaven: for the
people thereof shall mourn over it, and
the
priests thereof that rejoiced
on it, for the glory thereof,
because it is departed from it.
010:006 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a
present to king
Jareb: Ephraim
shall receive shame, and Israel shall
be
ashamed of his own counsel.
010:007 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam
upon the
water.
010:008 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel,
shall be
destroyed: the thorn and
the thistle shall come up on their
altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and
to
the hills, Fall on us.
010:009 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of
Gibeah: there they
stood: the
battle in Gibeah against the children of
iniquity
did not overtake
them.
010:010 It is in my desire that I should chastise them;
and the people
shall be gathered
against them, when they shall bind
themselves in their two furrows.
010:011 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and
loveth to
tread out the corn; but
I passed over upon her fair neck:
I
will make Ephraim to ride; Judah
shall plow, and Jacob shall
break
his clods.
010:012 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in
mercy; break up
your fallow
ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till
he
come and rain righteousness
upon you.
010:013 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped
iniquity; ye have
eaten the fruit
of lies: because thou didst trust in thy
way,
in the multitude of thy
mighty men.
010:014 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people,
and all thy
fortresses shall be
spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel
in
the day of battle: the mother
was dashed in pieces upon her
children.
010:015 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your
great wickedness:
in a morning
shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
011:001 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and
called my son
out of Egypt.
011:002 As they called them, so they went from them:
they sacrificed
unto Baalim, and
burned incense to graven images.
011:003 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by
their arms; but
they knew not that
I healed them.
011:004 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of
love: and I was
to them as they
that take off the yoke on their jaws, and
I
laid meat unto them.
011:005 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and
the Assyrian
shall be his king,
because they refused to return.
011:006 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and
shall consume his
branches, and
devour them, because of their own counsels.
011:007 And my people are bent to backsliding from me:
though they
called them to the
most High, none at all would exalt him.
011:008 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I
deliver thee,
Israel? how shall I
make thee as Admah? how shall I set
thee
as Zeboim? mine heart is
turned within me, my repentings
are
kindled together.
011:009 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger,
I will not
return to destroy
Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the
Holy
One in the midst of thee: and
I will not enter into the city.
011:010 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar
like a lion:
when he shall roar,
then the children shall tremble from
the
west.
011:011 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and
as a dove out
of the land of
Assyria: and I will place them in their
houses,
saith the LORD.
011:012 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the
house of Israel
with deceit: but
Judah yet ruleth with God, and is
faithful
with the saints.
012:001 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the
east wind: he
daily increaseth
lies and desolation; and they do make
a
covenant with the Assyrians, and
oil is carried into Egypt.
012:002 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and
will punish
Jacob according to his
ways; according to his doings will
he
recompense him.
012:003 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and
by his
strength he had power with
God:
012:004 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed:
he wept, and
made supplication
unto him: he found him in Bethel, and
there
he spake with us;
012:005 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
012:006 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and
judgment and
wait on thy God
continually.
012:007 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in
his hand: he
loveth to
oppress.
012:008 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have
found me out
substance: in all my
labours they shall find none iniquity
in
me that were sin.
012:009 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of
Egypt will yet
make thee to dwell
in tabernacles, as in the days of
the
solemn feast.
012:010 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have
multiplied
visions, and used
similitudes, by the ministry of
the
prophets.
012:011 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are
vanity: they
sacrifice bullocks in
Gilgal; yea, their altars are as
heaps
in the furrows of the
fields.
012:012 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and
Israel served
for a wife, and for
a wife he kept sheep.
012:013 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of
Egypt, and by
a prophet was he
preserved.
012:014 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
therefore shall
he leave his blood
upon him, and his reproach shall his
LORD
return unto him.
013:001 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself
in Israel;
but when he offended in
Baal, he died.
013:002 And now they sin more and more, and have made
them molten
images of their
silver, and idols according to their
own
understanding, all of it the
work of the craftsmen: they say
of
them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
013:003 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and
as the early
dew that passeth
away, as the chaff that is driven with
the
whirlwind out of the floor,
and as the smoke out of the
chimney.
013:004 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of
Egypt, and thou
shalt know no god
but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
013:005 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land
of great
drought.
013:006 According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were
filled, and their heart
was exalted; therefore have they
forgotten me.
013:007 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a
leopard by the
way will I observe
them:
013:008 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of
her whelps, and
will rend the caul
of their heart, and there will I
devour
them like a lion: the wild
beast shall tear them.
013:009 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me
is thine
help.
013:010 I will be thy king: where is any other that may
save thee in
all thy cities? and
thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me
a
king and princes?
013:011 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him
away in my
wrath.
013:012 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
013:013 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come
upon him: he is
an unwise son; for
he should not stay long in the place of
the
breaking forth of
children.
013:014 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem
them from death: O
death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,
I
will be thy destruction:
repentance shall be hid from mine
eyes.
013:015 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an
east wind shall
come, the wind of
the LORD shall come up from the
wilderness,
and his spring shall
become dry, and his fountain shall
be
dried up: he shall spoil the
treasure of all pleasant vessels.
013:016 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath
rebelled against
her God: they
shall fall by the sword: their infants shall
be
dashed in pieces, and their
women with child shall be ripped
up.
014:001 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou
hast fallen
by thine iniquity.
014:002 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say
unto him, Take
away all iniquity,
and receive us graciously: so will
we
render the calves of our
lips.
014:003 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon
horses:
neither will we say any
more to the work of our hands, Ye
are
our gods: for in thee the
fatherless findeth mercy.
014:004 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them
freely: for
mine anger is turned
away from him.
014:005 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow
as the lily,
and cast forth his
roots as Lebanon.
014:006 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall
be as the
olive tree, and his
smell as Lebanon.
014:007 They that dwell under his shadow shall return;
they shall
revive as the corn, and
grow as the vine: the scent
thereof
shall be as the wine of
Lebanon.
014:008 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more
with idols? I
have heard him, and
observed him: I am like a green fir
tree.
From me is thy fruit
found.
014:009 Who is wise, and he shall understand these
things? prudent,
and he shall know
them? for the ways of the LORD are
right,
and the just shall walk in
them: but the transgressors shall
fall therein.