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