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Book 28 Hosea
28:001:001 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.
28:001:002 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.
28:001:003 So he went and took
Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
conceived, and bare him
a son.
28:001:004 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.
28:001:005 And it shall come to
pass at that day, that I will break the
bow of Israel, in the
valley of Jezreel.
28:001:006 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.
28:001:007 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.
28:001:008 Now when she had weaned
Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a
son.
28:001:009 Then said God, Call his
name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
and I will not be your
God.
28:001:010 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.
28:001:011 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.
28:002:001 Say ye unto your
brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
28:002:002 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;
28:002:003 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.
28:002:004 And I will not have
mercy upon her children; for they be the
children of whoredoms.
28:002:005 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.
28:002:006 Therefore, behold, I
will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
make a wall, that she
shall not find her paths.
28:002:007 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.
28:002:008 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.
28:002:009 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.
28:002:010 And now will I discover
her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall
deliver her out of mine hand.
28:002:011 I will also cause all
her mirth to cease, her feast days, her
new moons, and her
sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
28:002:012 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.
28:002:013 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.
28:002:014 Therefore, behold, I
will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak
comfortably unto her.
28:002:015 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.
28:002:016 And it shall be at that
day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt
call me Ishi; and shalt
call me no more Baali.
28:002:017 For I will take away
the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and
they shall no more be
remembered by their name.
28:002:018 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.
28:002:019 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.
28:002:020 I will even betroth
thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou
shalt know the LORD.
28:002:021 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;
28:002:022 And the earth shall
hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;
and they shall hear
Jezreel.
28:002:023 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.
28:003:001 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.
28:003:002 So I bought her to me
for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an
homer of barley, and an
half homer of barley:
28:003:003 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.
28:003:004 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:
28:003:005 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.
28:004:001 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.
28:004:002 By swearing, and lying,
and killing, and stealing, and
committing adultery,
they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
28:004:003 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.
28:004:004 Yet let no man strive,
nor reprove another: for thy people are
as they that strive
with the priest.
28:004:005 Therefore shalt thou
fall in the day, and the prophet also
shall fall with thee in
the night, and I will destroy thy
mother.
28:004:006 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.
28:004:007 As they were increased,
so they sinned against me: therefore
will I change their
glory into shame.
28:004:008 They eat up the sin of
my people, and they set their heart on
their iniquity.
28:004:009 And there shall be,
like people, like priest: and I will
punish them for their
ways, and reward them their doings.
28:004:010 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.
28:004:011 Whoredom and wine and
new wine take away the heart.
28:004:012 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.
28:004:013 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.
28:004:014 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.
28:004:015 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.
28:004:016 For Israel slideth back
as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD
will feed them as a
lamb in a large place.
28:004:017 Ephraim is joined to
idols: let him alone.
28:004:018 Their drink is sour:
they have committed whoredom continually:
her rulers with shame
do love, Give ye.
28:004:019 The wind hath bound her
up in her wings, and they shall be
ashamed because of
their sacrifices.
28:005:001 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.
28:005:002 And the revolters are
profound to make slaughter, though I
have been a rebuker of
them all.
28:005:003 I know Ephraim, and
Israel is not hid from me: for now, O
Ephraim, thou
committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
28:005:004 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.
28:005:005 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.
28:005:006 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.
28:005:007 They have dealt
treacherously against the LORD: for they have
begotten strange
children: now shall a month devour them with
their portions.
28:005:008 Blow ye the cornet in
Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry
aloud at Bethaven,
after thee, O Benjamin.
28:005:009 Ephraim shall be
desolate in the day of rebuke: among the
tribes of Israel have I
made known that which shall surely be.
28:005:010 The princes of Judah
were like them that remove the bound:
therefore I will pour
out my wrath upon them like water.
28:005:011 Ephraim is oppressed
and broken in judgment, because he
willingly walked after
the commandment.
28:005:012 Therefore will I be
unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house
of Judah as rottenness.
28:005:013 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.
28:005:014 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.
28:005:015 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.
28:006:001 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.
28:006:002 After two days will he
revive us: in the third day he will
raise us up, and we
shall live in his sight.
28:006:003 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.
28:006:004 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.
28:006:005 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.
28:006:006 For I desired mercy,
and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
God more than burnt
offerings.
28:006:007 But they like men have
transgressed the covenant: there have
they dealt
treacherously against me.
28:006:008 Gilead is a city of
them that work iniquity, and is polluted
with blood.
28:006:009 And as troops of
robbers wait for a man, so the company of
priests murder in the
way by consent: for they commit
lewdness.
28:006:010 I have seen an horrible
thing in the house of Israel: there is
the whoredom of
Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
28:006:011 Also, O Judah, he hath
set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the captivity
of my people.
28:007:001 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.
28:007:002 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.
28:007:003 They make the king glad
with their wickedness, and the princes
with their lies.
28:007:004 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.
28:007:005 In the day of our king
the princes have made him sick with
bottles of wine; he
stretched out his hand with scorners.
28:007:006 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.
28:007:007 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.
28:007:008 Ephraim, he hath mixed
himself among the people; Ephraim is a
cake not turned.
28:007:009 Strangers have devoured
his strength, and he knoweth it not:
yea, gray hairs are
here and there upon him, yet he knoweth
not.
28:007:010 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.
28:007:011 Ephraim also is like a
silly dove without heart: they call to
Egypt, they go to
Assyria.
28:007:012 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.
28:007:013 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.
28:007:014 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.
28:007:015 Though I have bound and
strengthened their arms, yet do they
imagine mischief
against me.
28:007:016 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.
28:008:001 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.
28:008:002 Israel shall cry unto
me, My God, we know thee.
28:008:003 Israel hath cast off
the thing that is good: the enemy shall
pursue him.
28:008:004 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.
28:008:005 Thy calf, O Samaria,
hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled
against them: how long
will it be ere they attain to
innocency?
28:008:006 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.
28:008:007 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.
28:008:008 Israel is swallowed up:
now shall they be among the Gentiles
as a vessel wherein is
no pleasure.
28:008:009 For they are gone up to
Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath hired
lovers.
28:008:010 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.
28:008:011 Because Ephraim hath
made many altars to sin, altars shall be
unto him to sin.
28:008:012 I have written to him
the great things of my law, but they
were counted as a
strange thing.
28:008:013 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.
28:008:014 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.
28:009:001 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.
28:009:002 The floor and the
winepress shall not feed them, and the new
wine shall fail in her.
28:009:003 They shall not dwell in
the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and
they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
28:009:004 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.
28:009:005 What will ye do in the
solemn day, and in the day of the feast
of the LORD?
28:009:006 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.
28:009:007 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.
28:009:008 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.
28:009:009 They have deeply
corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: therefore he
will remember their iniquity, he will
visit their sins.
28:009:010 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.
28:009:011 As for Ephraim, their
glory shall fly away like a bird, from
the birth, and from the
womb, and from the conception.
28:009:012 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!
28:009:013 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus,
is planted in a pleasant place: but
Ephraim shall bring
forth his children to the murderer.
28:009:014 Give them, O LORD: what
wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and
dry breasts.
28:009:015 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.
28:009:016 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.
28:009:017 My God will cast them
away, because they did not hearken unto
him: and they shall be
wanderers among the nations.
28:010:001 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.
28:010:002 Their heart is divided;
now shall they be found faulty: he
shall break down their
altars, he shall spoil their images.
28:010:003 For now they shall say,
We have no king, because we feared not
the LORD; what then
should a king do to us?
28:010:004 They have spoken words,
swearing falsely in making a covenant:
thus judgment springeth
up as hemlock in the furrows of the
field.
28:010:005 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.
28:010:006 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.
28:010:007 As for Samaria, her
king is cut off as the foam upon the
water.
28:010:008 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.
28:010:009 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.
28:010:010 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.
28:010:011 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.
28:010:012 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.
28:010:013 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.
28:010:014 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.
28:010:015 So shall Bethel do unto
you because of your great wickedness:
in a morning shall the
king of Israel utterly be cut off.
28:011:001 When Israel was a
child, then I loved him, and called my son
out of Egypt.
28:011:002 As they called them, so
they went from them: they sacrificed
unto Baalim, and burned
incense to graven images.
28:011:003 I taught Ephraim also
to go, taking them by their arms; but
they knew not that I
healed them.
28:011:004 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.
28:011:005 He shall not return
into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian
shall be his king,
because they refused to return.
28:011:006 And the sword shall
abide on his cities, and shall consume his
branches, and devour
them, because of their own counsels.
28:011:007 And my people are bent
to backsliding from me: though they
called them to the most
High, none at all would exalt him.
28:011:008 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.
28:011:009 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.
28:011:010 They shall walk after
the LORD: he shall roar like a lion:
when he shall roar,
then the children shall tremble from the
west.
28:011:011 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.
28:011:012 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.
28:012:001 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.
28:012:002 The LORD hath also a
controversy with Judah, and will punish
Jacob according to his
ways; according to his doings will he
recompense him.
28:012:003 He took his brother by
the heel in the womb, and by his
strength he had power
with God:
28:012:004 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;
28:012:005 Even the LORD God of
hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
28:012:006 Therefore turn thou to
thy God: keep mercy and judgment and
wait on thy God
continually.
28:012:007 He is a merchant, the
balances of deceit are in his hand: he
loveth to oppress.
28:012:008 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.
28:012:009 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.
28:012:010 I have also spoken by
the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and used
similitudes, by the ministry of the
prophets.
28:012:011 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.
28:012:012 And Jacob fled into the
country of Syria, and Israel served
for a wife, and for a
wife he kept sheep.
28:012:013 And by a prophet the
LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by
a prophet was he
preserved.
28:012:014 Ephraim provoked him to
anger most bitterly: therefore shall
he leave his blood upon
him, and his reproach shall his LORD
return unto him.
28:013:001 When Ephraim spake
trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;
but when he offended in
Baal, he died.
28:013:002 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.
28:013:003 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.
28:013:004 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.
28:013:005 I did know thee in the
wilderness, in the land of great
drought.
28:013:006 According to their
pasture, so were they filled; they were
filled, and their heart
was exalted; therefore have they
forgotten me.
28:013:007 Therefore I will be
unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the
way will I observe
them:
28:013:008 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.
28:013:009 O Israel, thou hast
destroyed thyself; but in me is thine
help.
28:013:010 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?
28:013:011 I gave thee a king in
mine anger, and took him away in my
wrath.
28:013:012 The iniquity of Ephraim
is bound up; his sin is hid.
28:013:013 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.
28:013:014 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.
28:013:015 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.
28:013:016 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.
28:014:001 O israel, return unto
the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen
by thine iniquity.
28:014:002 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.
28:014:003 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.
28:014:004 I will heal their
backsliding, I will love them freely: for
mine anger is turned
away from him.
28:014:005 I will be as the dew
unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily,
and cast forth his
roots as Lebanon.
28:014:006 His branches shall
spread, and his beauty shall be as the
olive tree, and his
smell as Lebanon.
28:014:007 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.
28:014:008 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.
28:014:009 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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