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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
king james study
==== <HO1>
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
conceived,
and bare him a son.
HO-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.
HO-1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break
the bow of
Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
HO-1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God]
said unto him,
Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the
house of
Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
HO-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.
HO-1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and
bare a son.
HO-1:9 Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not
my people, and
I will not be your [God].
HO-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.
HO-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.
==== <HO2>
HO-2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
HO-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;
HO-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.
HO-2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they
[be] the
children of whoredoms.
HO-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.
HO-2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
and make a
wall, that she shall not find her paths.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of
her lovers, and
none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her
into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and
thou shalt know
the LORD.
HO-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;
HO-2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and
the oil; and
they shall hear Jezreel.
HO-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.
==== <HO3>
HO-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.
HO-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:
HO-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.
HO-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:
HO-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.
==== <HO4>
HO-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.
HO-4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
HO-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.
HO-4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy
people [are] as
they that strive with the priest.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
[therefore] will I
change their glory into shame.
HO-4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their
heart on their
iniquity.
HO-4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
punish them
for their ways, and reward them their doings.
HO-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.
HO-4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not
Judah offend; and
come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear,
The LORD
liveth.
HO-4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now
the LORD will
feed them as a lamb in a large place.
HO-4:17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
HO-4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom
continually: her
rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
HO-4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall
be ashamed
because of their sacrifices.
==== <HO5>
HO-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.
HO-5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though
I [have been]
a rebuker of them all.
HO-5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now,
O Ephraim,
thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they
have begotten
strange children: now shall a month devour them with their
portions.
HO-5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah:
cry aloud
[at] Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
HO-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.
HO-5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the
bound:
[therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
HO-5:11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment,
because he willingly
walked after the commandment.
HO-5:12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to
the house of
Judah as rottenness.
HO-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.
HO-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].
HO-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.
==== <HO6>
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the
knowledge of God more
than burnt offerings.
HO-6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there
have they
dealt treacherously against me.
HO-6:8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is]
polluted with
blood.
HO-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.
HO-6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:
there [is] the
whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
HO-6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the
captivity of my people.
==== <HO7>
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
princes with
their lies.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim
is a cake not
turned.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they
call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-7:15 Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet
do they
imagine mischief against me.
HO-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.
==== <HO8>
HO-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.
HO-8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
HO-8:3 Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy
shall pursue
him.
HO-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.
HO-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?
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the
Gentiles as a
vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.
HO-8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim
hath hired lovers.
HO-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.
HO-8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars
shall be unto
him to sin.
HO-8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but]
they were
counted as a strange thing.
HO-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.
HO-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.
==== <HO9>
HO-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.
HO-9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the
new wine
shall fail in her.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the
feast of the
LORD?
HO-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.
HO-9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense
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.
HO-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.
HO-9:9 They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days
of Gibeah:
[therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their
sins.
HO-9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw
your fathers as
the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went
to Baalpeor,
and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their]
abominations were
according as they loved.
HO-9:11 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a
bird, from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
HO-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!
HO-9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant
place: but
Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
HO-9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not
hearken unto him:
and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
==== <HO10>
HO-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.
HO-10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:
he shall
break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
HO-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?
HO-10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a
covenant: thus
judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
HO-10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the
calves of
Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the
priests thereof
[that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is
departed from it.
HO-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.
HO-10:7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon
the water.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and
all thy
fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the
day of
battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.
HO-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.
==== <HO11>
HO-11:1 When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called
my son out of
Egypt.
HO-11:2 [As] they called them, so they went from them: they
sacrificed unto
Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
HO-11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms;
but they knew
not that I healed them.
HO-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.
HO-11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the
Assyrian shall be
his king, because they refused to return.
HO-11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall
consume his
branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
HO-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].
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
==== <HO12>
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his
strength he
had power with God:
HO-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;
HO-12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
HO-12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment,
and wait on
thy God continually.
HO-12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his
hand: he
loveth to oppress.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have
multiplied visions,
and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
HO-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.
HO-12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel
served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
HO-12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt,
and by a
prophet was he preserved.
HO-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.
==== <HO13>
HO-13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in
Israel; but when
he offended in Baal, he died.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
drought.
HO-13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they
were filled,
and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
HO-13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard
by the way will
I observe [them]:
HO-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.
HO-13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is]
thine help.
HO-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?
HO-13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took [him] away
in my wrath.
HO-13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is]
hid.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
==== <HO14>
HO-14:1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine
iniquity.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:
for mine
anger is turned away from him.
HO-14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the
lily, and cast
forth his roots as Lebanon.
HO-14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as
the olive tree,
and his smell as Lebanon.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-14:9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]?
prudent, and
he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and
the just shall
walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
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