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 .

  

 

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