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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.

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11 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 .

12 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 .

13 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim which

conceived and bare him a son .

14 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 .

15 And it shall come to pass at that day that I will break the

bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel .

16 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 .

17 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 .

18 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah she conceived and bare a

son .

19 Then said God Call his name Loammi for ye are not my people

and I will not be your God .

110 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 .

111 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 .

* 21 Say ye unto your brethren Ammi and to your sisters Ruhamah

22 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 .

23 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 .

24 And I will not have mercy upon her children for they be the

children of whoredoms .

25 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 .

26 Therefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns and

make a wall that she shall not find her paths .

27 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 .

28 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 .

29 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 .

210 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her

lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand .

211 I will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast days

her new moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn feasts .

212 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 .

213 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 .

214 Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the

wilderness and speak comfortably unto her .

215 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 .

216 And it shall be at that day saith the LORD that thou shalt

call me Ishi and shalt call me no more Baali .

217 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth

and they shall no more be remembered by their name .

218 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 .

219 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 .

220 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou

shalt know the LORD .

221 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 .

222 And the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil

and they shall hear Jezreel .

223 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 .

* 31 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 .

32 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for

an homer of barley and an half homer of barley .

33 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 .

34 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 .

35 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 .

* 41 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 .

42 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and

committing adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood .

43 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 .

44 Yet let no man strive nor reprove another for thy people

are as they that strive with the priest .

45 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day and the prophet also

shall fall with thee in the night and I will destroy thy mother .

46 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 .

47 As they were increased so they sinned against me therefore

will I change their glory into shame .

48 They eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart

on their iniquity .

49 And there shall be like people like priest and I will

punish them for their ways and reward them their doings .

410 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 .

411 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart .

412 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 .

413 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 .

414 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 .

415 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 .

416 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer now the

LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place .

417 Ephraim is joined to idols let him alone .

418 Their drink is sour they have committed whoredom

continually her rulers with shame do love Give ye .

419 The wind hath bound her up in her wings and they shall be

ashamed because of their sacrifices .

* 51 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 .

52 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter though I

have been a rebuker of them all .

53 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me for now O

Ephraim thou committest whoredom and Israel is defiled .

54 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 .

55 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 .

56 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 .

57 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they

have begotten strange children now shall a month devour them

with their portions .

58 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah cry

aloud at Bethaven after thee O Benjamin .

59 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the

tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be .

510 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound

therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water .

511 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he

willingly walked after the commandment .

512 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the

house of Judah as rottenness .

513 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 .

514 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 .

515 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 .

* 61 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 .

62 After two days will he revive us in the third day he will

raise us up and we shall live in his sight .

63 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 .

64 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 .

65 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 .

66 For I desired mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of

God more than burnt offerings .

67 But they like men have transgressed the covenant there have

they dealt treacherously against me .

68 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity and is polluted

with blood .

69 And as troops of robbers wait for a man so the company of

priests murder in the way by consent for they commit lewdness .

610 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel there

is the whoredom of Ephraim Israel is defiled .

611 Also O Judah he hath set an harvest for thee when I

returned the captivity of my people .

* 71 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 .

72 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 .

73 They make the king glad with their wickedness and the

princes with their lies .

74 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 .

75 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with

bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners .

76 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 .

77 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 .

78 Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people Ephraim is a

cake not turned .

79 Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not

yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he knoweth not .

710 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 .

711 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call

to Egypt they go to Assyria .

712 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 .

713 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 .

714 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 .

715 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms yet do

they imagine mischief against me .

716 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 .

* 81 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 .

82 Israel shall cry unto me My God we know thee .

83 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good the enemy shall

pursue him .

84 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 .

85 Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled

against them how long will it be ere they attain to innocency .

86 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 .

87 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 .

88 Israel is swallowed up now shall they be among the Gentiles

as a vessel wherein is no pleasure .

89 For they are gone up to Assyria a wild ass alone by himself

Ephraim hath hired lovers .

810 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 .

811 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall

be unto him to sin .

812 I have written to him the great things of my law but they

were counted as a strange thing .

813 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 .

814 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 .

* 91 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 .

92 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them and the new

wine shall fail in her .

93 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land but Ephraim shall

return to Egypt and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria .

94 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 .

95 What will ye do in the solemn day and in the day of the

feast of the LORD .

96 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 .

97 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 .

98 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 .

99 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of

Gibeah therefore he will remember their iniquity he will visit

their sins .

910 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 .

911 As for Ephraim their glory shall fly away like a bird from

the birth and from the womb and from the conception .

912 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 .

913 Ephraim as I saw Tyrus is planted in a pleasant place but

Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer .

914 Give them O LORD what wilt thou give give them a

miscarrying womb and dry breasts .

915 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 .

916 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 .

917 My God will cast them away because they did not hearken

unto him and they shall be wanderers among the nations .

* 101 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 .

102 Their heart is divided now shall they be found faulty he

shall break down their altars he shall spoil their images .

103 For now they shall say We have no king because we feared

not the LORD what then should a king do to us .

104 They have spoken words swearing falsely in making a

covenant thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of

the field .

105 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 .

106 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 .

107 As for Samaria her king is cut off as the foam upon the

water .

108 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 .

109 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 .

1010 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 .

1011 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 .

1012 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 .

1013 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 .

1014 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 .

1015 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great

wickedness in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut

off .

* 111 When Israel was a child then I loved him and called my

son out of Egypt .

112 As they called them so they went from them they sacrificed

unto Baalim and burned incense to graven images .

113 I taught Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but

they knew not that I healed them .

114 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 .

115 He shall not return into the land of Egypt but the

Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to return .

116 And the sword shall abide on his cities and shall consume

his branches and devour them because of their own counsels .

117 And my people are bent to backsliding from me though they

called them to the most High none at all would exalt him .

118 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 .

119 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 .

1110 They shall walk after the LORD he shall roar like a lion

when he shall roar then the children shall tremble from the west

1111 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 .

1112 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 .

* 121 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 .

122 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah and will

punish Jacob according to his ways according to his doings will

he recompense him .

123 He took his brother by the heel in the womb and by his

strength he had power with God .

124 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 .

125 Even the LORD God of hosts the LORD is his memorial .

126 Therefore turn thou to thy God keep mercy and judgment and

wait on thy God continually .

127 He is a merchant the balances of deceit are in his hand he

loveth to oppress .

128 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 .

129 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 .

1210 I have also spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied

visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets .

1211 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 .

1212 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria and Israel

served for a wife and for a wife he kept sheep .

1213 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt and

by a prophet was he preserved .

1214 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly therefore

shall he leave his blood upon him and his reproach shall his

Lord return unto him .

* 131 When Ephraim spake trembling he exalted himself in Israel

but when he offended in Baal he died .

132 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 .

133 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 .

134 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 .

135 I did know thee in the wilderness in the land of great

drought .

136 According to their pasture so were they filled they were

filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten

me .

137 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion as a leopard by

the way will I observe them .

138 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 .

139 O Israel thou hast destroyed thyself but in me is thine

help .

1310 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 .

1311 I gave thee a king in mine anger and took him away in my

wrath .

1312 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up his sin is hid .

1313 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 .

1314 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 .

1315 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 .

1316 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 .

* 141 O Israel return unto the LORD thy God for thou hast

fallen by thine iniquity .

142 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 .

143 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 .

144 I will heal their backsliding I will love them freely for

mine anger is turned away from him .

145 I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lily

and cast forth his roots as Lebanon .

146 His branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the

olive tree and his smell as Lebanon .

147 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 .

148 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 .

149 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 .