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▲1.1 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.
1.2 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.
1.3 So he
went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare
him a son.
1.4 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.
1.5 And it
shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in
the valley of Jezreel.
1.6 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.
1.7 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.
1.8 Now
when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
1.9 Then
said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I
will not be your [God].
1.10 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.
1.11 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.
▲2.1 Say ye unto your brethren,
Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2.2 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;
2.3 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.
2.4 And I
will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of
whoredoms.
2.5 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.
2.6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a
wall, that she shall not find her paths.
2.7 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.
2.8 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.
2.9
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.
2.10 And
now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none
shall deliver her out of mine hand.
2.11 I will
also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and
her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
2.12 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.
2.13 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.
2.14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
2.15 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.
2.16 And it
shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me Ishi;
and shalt call me no more Baali.
2.17 For I
will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no
more be remembered by their name.
2.18 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.
2.19 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.
2.20 I will
even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
2.21 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;
2.22 And
the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they
shall hear Jezreel.
2.23 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.
▲3.1 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.
3.2 So I
bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of
barley, and an half homer of barley:
3.3 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.
3.4 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:
3.5
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.
▲4.1 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.
4.2 By
swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
4.3
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.
4.4 Yet let
no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that
strive with the priest.
4.5
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall
with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
4.6 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.
4.7 As they
were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change
their glory into shame.
4.8 They
eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
4.9 And
there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for
their ways, and reward them their doings.
4.10 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.
4.11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
4.12 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.
4.13 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.
4.14 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.
4.15 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.
4.16 For
Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed
them as a lamb in a large place.
4.17
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
4.18 Their
drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers
[with] shame do love, Give ye.
4.19 The
wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because
of their sacrifices.
▲5.1 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.
5.2 And the
revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a
rebuker of them all.
5.3 I know
Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou
committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.
5.4 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.
5.5 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.
5.6 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.
5.7 They
have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten
strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
5.8 Blow ye
the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at]
Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
5.9 Ephraim
shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have
I made known that which shall surely be.
5.10 The
princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: [therefore] I
will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
5.11
Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly
walked after the commandment.
5.12
Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of
Judah as rottenness.
5.13 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.
5.14 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].
5.15 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.
▲6.1 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.
6.2 After
two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight.
6.3 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.
6.4 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.
6.5
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.
6.6 For I
desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than
burnt offerings.
6.7 But
they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt
treacherously against me.
6.8 Gilead
[is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
6.9 And as
troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in
the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
6.10 I have
seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom
of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
6.11 Also,
O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity
of my people.
▲7.1 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.
7.2 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.
7.3 They
make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their
lies.
7.4 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.
7.5 In the
day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine;
he stretched out his hand with scorners.
7.6 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.
7.7 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.
7.8
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
7.9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea,
gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
7.10 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.
7.11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
7.12 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.
7.13 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.
7.14 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.
7.15 Though
I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against me.
7.16 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.
▲8.1 [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.
8.2 Israel
shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
8.3 Israel
hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him.
8.4 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.
8.5 Thy
calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against
them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?
8.6 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.
8.7 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.
8.8 Israel
is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel
wherein [is] no pleasure.
8.9 For
they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath
hired lovers.
8.10 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.
8.11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him
to sin.
8.12 I have
written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a
strange thing.
8.13 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.
8.14 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.
▲9.1 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.
9.2 The
floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall
fail in her.
9.3 They
shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.
9.4 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.
9.5 What
will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
9.6 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.
9.7 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.
9.8 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.
9.9 They
have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah:
[therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
9.10 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.
9.11 [As
for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth,
and from the womb, and from the conception.
9.12 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!
9.13
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim
shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
9.14 Give
them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry
breasts.
9.15 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.
9.16
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.
9.17 My God
will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they
shall be wanderers among the nations.
▲10.1 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.
10.2 Their
heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down
their altars, he shall spoil their images.
10.3 For
now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD;
what then should a king do to us?
10.4 They
have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment
springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
10.5 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.
10.6 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.
10.7 [As
for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
10.8 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.
10.9 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.
10.10 [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.
10.11 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.
10.12 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.
10.13 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.
10.14
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.
10.15 So
shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning
shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
▲11.1 When Israel [was] a child,
then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
11.2 [As]
they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim,
and burned incense to graven images.
11.3 I
taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not
that I healed them.
11.4 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.
11.5 He
shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his
king, because they refused to return.
11.6 And
the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches,
and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
11.7 And my
people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the
most High, none at all would exalt [him].
11.8 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.
11.9 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.
11.10 They
shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall
roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
11.11 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.
▲12.1 (11.12) 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.
12.2 (12.1)
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.
12.3 (12.2)
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob
according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
12.4 (12.3)
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had
power with God:
12.5 (12.4)
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;
12.6 (12.5)
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
12.7 (12.6)
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on
thy God continually.
12.8 (12.7)
[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth
to oppress.
12.9 (12.8)
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.
12.10 (12.9)
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.
12.11 (12.10)
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and
used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
12.12 (12.11)
[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.
12.13 (12.12)
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he kept [sheep].
12.14 (12.13)
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet
was he preserved.
12.15 (12.14)
Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave
his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
▲13.1 When Ephraim spake
trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal,
he died.
13.2 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.
13.3
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.
13.4 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.
13.5 I did
know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
13.6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and
their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
13.7
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I
observe [them]:
13.8 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.
13.9 O
Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.
13.10 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?
13.11 I
gave thee a king in mine anger, and took [him] away in my wrath.
13.12 The
iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.
13.13 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.
13.14 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.
13.15
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.
13.16
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.
▲14.1 O Israel, return unto the
LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
14.2 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.
14.3 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.
14.4 I will
heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is
turned away from him.
14.5 I will
be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth
his roots as Lebanon.
14.6 His
branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and
his smell as Lebanon.
14.7 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.
14.8
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.
14.9 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.
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