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<h1>Hosea</h1>
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<a href="#4">4</a> | <a href="#5">5</a> | <a href="#6">6</a> |
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<hr width="50%" /><div class="book">
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Hosea 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>The word of the Lord, that came to Hosea the son of Beeri,
in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kings of Juda,
and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the
Lord said to Hosea: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have
of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall
depart from the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and
she conceived and bore him a son.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet
a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the
house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house
of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel
in the valley of Jezrahel.</span></li>
<li><span>And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said
to him: Call her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more
to have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget
them.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will
save them by the Lord their God: and Iwill not save them by bow,
nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by
horsemen.</span></li>
<li><span>And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she
conceived, and bore a son.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are
not my people, and I will not be yours.</span></li>
<li><span>And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be
numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to
them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the
sons of the living God.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel
shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one
head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of
Jezrahel.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Hosea 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your
sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.</span></li>
<li><span>Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from
her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.</span></li>
<li><span>Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that
she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her
as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with
drought.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are
the children of fornications.</span></li>
<li><span>For their mother hath committed fornication, she that
conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after
my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my
flax, my oil, and my drink.</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her
paths.</span></li>
<li><span>And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not
overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she
shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it
was better with me then, than now.</span></li>
<li><span>And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and
oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in
the service of Baal.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its
season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my
wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.</span></li>
<li><span>And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her
lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:</span></li>
<li><span>And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities,
her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival
times.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which
she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and
I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall
devour her.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she
burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with
her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her
into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place,
and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing
there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days
of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she
shall call me : My husband, and she shall call me no more
Baali.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her
mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.</span></li>
<li><span>And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with
the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with
the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and
the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep
secure.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will
espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in
commiserations.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>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.</span></li>
<li><span>And the earth shall hear the core, and the wine, and the
oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have
mercy on her that was without mercy.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will say to that which was not my people: Thou art
my people: and they shall say: Thou art my God.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Hosea 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman
beloved of her friend, and an adulteress : as the Lord loveth the
children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the
husks of the grapes.</span></li>
<li><span>And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and
for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.</span></li>
<li><span>And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou
shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also
will wait for thee.</span></li>
<li><span>For the children of Israel shall sit many days without
king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar,
and without ephod, and without theraphim.</span></li>
<li><span>And after this the children of Israel shall return, and
shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall
fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last days.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">Hosea 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the
Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land:
for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no
knowledge of God in the land.</span></li>
<li><span>Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery
have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and
with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
gathered together.</span></li>
<li><span>But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be
rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the
priest.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also shall
fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be
silent.</span></li>
<li><span>My people have been silent, because they had no
knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject
thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy
children.</span></li>
<li><span>According to the multitude of them so have they sinned
against me: I will change their glory into shame.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up
their souls to their iniquity.</span></li>
<li><span>And there shall be like people like priest: and I will
visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their
devices.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have
committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have
forsaken the Lord in not observing his law.</span></li>
<li><span>Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the
understanding.</span></li>
<li><span>My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff
hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath
deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their
God.</span></li>
<li><span>They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,
and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar,
and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good:
therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses
shall be adulteresses.</span></li>
<li><span>I will not visit upon your daughters when they shell
commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit
adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered
sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not
understand shall be beaten.</span></li>
<li><span>If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda
offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven,
and do not swear: The Lord liveth.</span></li>
<li><span>For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now
will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him
alone.</span></li>
<li><span>Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by
fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to
bring shame upon them.</span></li>
<li><span>The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall
be confounded because of their sacrifices.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">Hosea 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of
Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment
against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should
have watched over, and a net spread upon Thabor.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I
am, the teacher of them all.</span></li>
<li><span>I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now
Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.</span></li>
<li><span>They will not set their thoughts to return to their God:
for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they
have not known the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and
Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall
fall with them.</span></li>
<li><span>With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to
seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from
them.</span></li>
<li><span>They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have
begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them
with their portions.</span></li>
<li><span>Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye
in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke:
among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely
be.</span></li>
<li><span>The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the
bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment:
because he began to go after filthiness.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness
to the house of Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and
Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he
shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off
the band from you.</span></li>
<li><span>For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a
lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will
take away, and there is none that can rescue.</span></li>
<li><span>I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed,
and seek my face.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">Hosea 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and
let us return to the Lord:</span></li>
<li><span>For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will
strike, and he will cure us.</span></li>
<li><span>He will revive us after two days: on the third day he
will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know,
and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth
is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the
early and the latter rain to the earth.</span></li>
<li><span>What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to
thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that
goeth away in the morning.</span></li>
<li><span>For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have
slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go
forth as the light.</span></li>
<li><span>For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge
of God more than holocausts.</span></li>
<li><span>But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant,
there have they dealt treacherously against me.</span></li>
<li><span>Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with
blood.</span></li>
<li><span>And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with
the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for
they have wrought wickedness.</span></li>
<li><span>I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the
fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall
bring back captivity of my people.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">Hosea 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim
was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have
committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber
is without.</span></li>
<li><span>And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember
all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about,
they have been done before my face.</span></li>
<li><span>They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and
the princes with their lies.</span></li>
<li><span>They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the
baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven,
till the whole was leavened.</span></li>
<li><span>The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with
wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.</span></li>
<li><span>Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when
he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the
morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.</span></li>
<li><span>They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured
their judges : all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst
them that calleth unto me.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is
become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not
turned.</span></li>
<li><span>Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not:
yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant
of it.</span></li>
<li><span>And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face:
and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they
sought him in all these.</span></li>
<li><span>And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not
having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the
Assyrians.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I
will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as
their congregation hath heard.</span></li>
<li><span>Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall
be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed
them : and they have spoken lies against me.</span></li>
<li><span>And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they
howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they
are departed from me.</span></li>
<li><span>And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms:
and they have imagined evil against me.</span></li>
<li><span>They returned, that they might be without yoke: they
became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword,
for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of
Egypt.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">Hosea 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon
the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant,
and have violated my law.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy
shall pursue him.</span></li>
<li><span>They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes,
and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made
idols to themselves, that they might perish.</span></li>
<li><span>Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled
against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed
?</span></li>
<li><span>For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman
made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned
to spiders' webs.</span></li>
<li><span>For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is
no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if it
should yield, strangers shall eat it.</span></li>
<li><span>Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the
nations like an unclean vessel.</span></li>
<li><span>For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.</span></li>
<li><span>But even though they shall have hired the nations, now
will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the
burden of the king, and the princes.</span></li>
<li><span>Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are
become to him unto sin.</span></li>
<li><span>I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been
accounted as foreign.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and
shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he
remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall
return to Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built
temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a
fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses
thereof.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">Hosea 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for
thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a
reward upon every cornfloor.</span></li>
<li><span>The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the
wine shall deceive them.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is
returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the
Assyrians.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they
please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners:
all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for
their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the
feast of the Lord?</span></li>
<li><span>For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall
inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their
tabernacles.</span></li>
<li><span>The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are
come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the
spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the
multitude of thy madness.</span></li>
<li><span>The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is
become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house
of his God.</span></li>
<li><span>They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will
remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.</span></li>
<li><span>I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their
fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof:
but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that
confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they
loved.</span></li>
<li><span>As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird
from the birth, and from the womb, and from the
conception.</span></li>
<li><span>And though they should bring up their children, I will
make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I
shall depart from them.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and
Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.</span></li>
<li><span>Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a
womb without children, and dry breasts.</span></li>
<li><span>All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated
them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth
out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are
revolters.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall
yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best
beloved fruit of their womb.</span></li>
<li><span>My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to
him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">Hosea 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to
it: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied
altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with
idols.</span></li>
<li><span>Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall
break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.</span></li>
<li><span>For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear
not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?</span></li>
<li><span>You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall
make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the
furrows of the field.</span></li>
<li><span>The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the king of
Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the
wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it
is departed from it.</span></li>
<li><span>For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the
avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be
confounded in his own will.</span></li>
<li><span>Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face
of the water.</span></li>
<li><span>And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall
be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their
altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the
hills: Fall upon us.</span></li>
<li><span>From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they
stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall
not overtake them.</span></li>
<li><span>According to my desire I will chastise them: and the
nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be
chastised for their two iniquities.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but
I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon
Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for
himself.</span></li>
<li><span>Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of
mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord
is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.</span></li>
<li><span>You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity,
you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy
ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.</span></li>
<li><span>A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy
fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the
house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle, the mother
being dashed in pieces upon her children.</span></li>
<li><span>So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your
iniquities.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="11">Hosea 11</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel Israel
was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>As they called them, they went away from before their
face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to
idols.</span></li>
<li><span>And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them
in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.</span></li>
<li><span>I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands
of love : and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on
their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might
eat.</span></li>
<li><span>He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the
Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be
converted.</span></li>
<li><span>The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume
his chosen men, and sha.ll devour their heads.</span></li>
<li><span>And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall
be put upon them together, which shall not be taken
off.</span></li>
<li><span>How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect
thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as
Seboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred
up.</span></li>
<li><span>I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not
return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy
one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the
city.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion:
because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall
fear.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and
like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them
in their own houses, saith the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the
house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with
God, and is faithful with the saints.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="12">Hosea 12</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning
heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he
hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and
a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his
ways, and according to his devices.</span></li>
<li><span>In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his
strength he had success with an angel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he
wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and
there he spoke with us.</span></li>
<li><span>Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his
memorial.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment,
and hope in thy God always.</span></li>
<li><span>He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his
hand, he hath loved oppression.</span></li>
<li><span>And Ephraim said: But yet I am be- come rich, I have
found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity
that I have committed.</span></li>
<li><span>And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,
will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the
feast.</span></li>
<li><span>And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the
prophets.</span></li>
<li><span>If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal
offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as
heaps in the furrows of the field.</span></li>
<li><span>Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served
for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.</span></li>
<li><span>But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt:
and he was pre- served by a prophet.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness,
and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his
reproach unto him.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="13">Hosea 13</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned
in Baal and died.</span></li>
<li><span>And now they have sinned more and more : and they have
made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness
of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say:
Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the
early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a
whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the
chimney.</span></li>
<li><span>But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and
thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside
me.</span></li>
<li><span>I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the
wilderness.</span></li>
<li><span>According to their pastures they were filled, and were
made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten
me.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the
way of the Assyrians.</span></li>
<li><span>I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps,
and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour
them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear
them.</span></li>
<li><span>Destruction is thy own, 0 Israel: thy help is only in
me.</span></li>
<li><span>Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in
all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me
kings and princes.</span></li>
<li><span>I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him
away in my indignation.</span></li>
<li><span>The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is
hidden.</span></li>
<li><span>The sorrows of a woman in labour snail come upon him, he
is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the
children.</span></li>
<li><span>I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will
redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I
will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.</span></li>
<li><span>Because he shall make a separation between brothers: s
the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert,
and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain
desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable
vessel.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="14">Hosea 14</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God
to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones
be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.</span></li>
<li><span>Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast
fallen down by thy iniquity.</span></li>
<li><span>Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to
him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will
render the calves of our lips.</span></li>
<li><span>Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses,
neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods,
for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for
my wrath is turned away from them.</span></li>
<li><span>I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily,
and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.</span></li>
<li><span>His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the
olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they
shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his
memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.</span></li>
<li><span>Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?
I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir
tree: from me is thy fruit found.</span></li>
<li><span>Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord
are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors
shall fall in them.</span></li>
</ol>
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