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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.
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.
3
So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
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.
5
And it shall come to pass at
that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
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.
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.
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¶ Now when she had weaned
Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
9
Then said God, Call his name
Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
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.
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.
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1 ¶ Say
ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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;
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.
4
And I will not have mercy upon
her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
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.
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¶ Therefore, behold, I will
hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find
her
paths.
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.
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.
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.
10
And now will I discover her
lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of
mine
hand.
11
I will also cause all her mirth
to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her
solemn
feasts.
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.
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.
14
¶ Therefore, behold, I will
allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
unto her.
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.
16
And it shall be at that day,
saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more
Baali.
17
For I will take away the names
of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by
their name.
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.
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.
20
I will even betroth thee unto
me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
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;
22
And the earth shall hear the
corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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.
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¶ 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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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¶ 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.
2
By swearing, and lying, and
killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and
blood
toucheth blood.
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
Yet let no man strive, nor
reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
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.
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.
7
As they were increased, so they
sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8
They eat up the sin of my
people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9
And there shall be, like people,
like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them
their
doings.
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.
11
Whoredom and wine and new wine
take away the heart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16
For Israel slideth back as a
backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large
place.
17
Ephraim is joined to idols: let
him alone.
18
Their drink is sour: they have
committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
19
The wind hath bound her up in
her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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¶ 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.
2
And the revolters are profound
to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is
not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and
Israel is
defiled.
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
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.
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.
7
They have dealt treacherously
against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a
month
devour them with their portions.
8
¶ Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,
and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the
day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which
shall
surely be.
10
The princes of Judah were like
them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon
them like
water.
11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken
in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
12
Therefore will I be unto
Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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.
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.
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.
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¶ 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.
2
After two days will he revive
us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his
sight.
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.
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.
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
For I desired mercy, and not
sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7
But they like men have
transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against
me.
8
Gilead is a city of them that
work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
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.
10
I have seen an horrible thing
in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is
defiled.
11
Also, O Judah, he hath set an
harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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¶ 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.
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.
3
They make the king glad with
their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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.
5
In the day of our king the
princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his
hand with
scorners.
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
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.
8
¶ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself
among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9
Strangers have devoured his
strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there
upon him,
yet he knoweth not.
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.
11
Ephraim also is like a silly
dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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.
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.
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.
15
Though I have bound and
strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
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.
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¶ 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.
2
Israel shall cry unto me, My
God, we know thee.
3
Israel hath cast off the thing
that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
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.
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?
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.
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
¶ Israel is swallowed up: now
shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9
For they are gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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.
11
Because Ephraim hath made many
altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12
I have written to him the great
things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
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.
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.
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¶ 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.
2
The floor and the winepress
shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3
They shall not dwell in the
LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat
unclean
things in Assyria.
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.
5
What will ye do in the solemn
day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
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.
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.
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
They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he
will
visit their sins.
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.
11
¶ As for Ephraim, their glory
shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from
the
conception.
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!
13
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is
planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children
to the
murderer.
14
Give them, O LORD: what wilt
thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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.
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.
17
My God will cast them away,
because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers
among the
nations.
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¶ 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.
2
Their heart is divided; now
shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall
spoil
their images.
3
For now they shall say, We have
no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to
us?
4
They have spoken words, swearing
falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in
the
furrows of the field.
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.
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.
7
As for Samaria, her king is cut
off as the foam upon the water.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15
So shall Bethel do unto you
because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel
utterly
be cut off.
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¶ When Israel was a child, then
I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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As they called them, so they
went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to
graven
images.
3
I taught Ephraim also to go,
taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
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.
5
He shall not return into the
land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused
to
return.
6
And the sword shall abide on his
cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of
their own
counsels.
7
And my people are bent to
backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at
all
would exalt him.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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¶ 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.
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.
3
He took his brother by the heel
in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
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;
5
Even the LORD God of hosts; the
LORD is his memorial.
6
Therefore turn thou to thy God:
keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7
¶ He is a merchant, the balances
of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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.
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.
10
I have also spoken by the
prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the
ministry
of the prophets.
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
And Jacob fled into the country
of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13
And by a prophet the LORD
brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
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.
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¶ When Ephraim spake trembling,
he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
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.
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.
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.
5
¶ I did know thee in the wilderness,
in the land of great drought.
6
According to their pasture, so
were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted;
therefore have
they forgotten me.
7
Therefore I will be unto them as
a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
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.
9
¶ O Israel, thou hast destroyed
thyself; but in me is thine help.
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?
11
I gave thee a king in mine
anger, and took him away in my wrath.
12
The iniquity of Ephraim is
bound up; his sin is hid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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¶ O Israel, return unto the LORD
thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
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.
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.
4
¶ I will heal their backsliding,
I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5
I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6
His branches shall spread, and
his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
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.
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.
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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