Hosea
1:1 The
word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son
of Joash, king of Israel.
1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the
LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto you a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms:
for the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
1:3
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
conceived, and bare him a son.
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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.
1:5
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break
the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
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.
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.
1:8
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare
a son.
1:9 Then
said God, Call his name Loammi: for all of you are not my people, and I will not
be your God.
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, All of you are not my people, there it shall be said unto
them, All of you are the sons of the living God.
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.
2:1
Say all of you unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
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;
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.
2:4 And
I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
2:5 For
their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has 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.
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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.
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.
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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.
2:10
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
2:11
I will also cause all her delight to cease, her feast days,
her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
2:12
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof
she has 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.
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 forgotten about me, says the LORD.
2:14 Therefore,
behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
unto her.
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.
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And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, that you shall
call me Ishi; and shall call me no more Baali.
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.
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.
2:19
And I will betroth you unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth
you unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in
mercies.
2:20 I
will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
2:21 And
it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will hear the
heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
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And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God.
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.
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:
3:3
And I said unto her, You shall abide for me many days; you
shall not play the harlot, and you shall not be for another man: so will I also
be for you.
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:
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.
4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, all of you children of Israel:
for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there
is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.
4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells
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.
4:4
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people
are as they that strive with the priest.
4:5
Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also
shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.
4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you
have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to
me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
4:7 As
they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their
glory into shame.
4:8 They
eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
4:9 And there
shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and
reward them their doings.
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.
4:11 Whoredom
and wine and new wine take away the heart.
4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares
unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to go astray, and they
have gone a whoring from under their God.
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.
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 does not understand shall fall.
4:15 Though
you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not all of you
unto Gilgal, neither go all of you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.
4:16 For
Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb
in a large place.
4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually:
her rulers with shame do love, Give all of you.
4:19
The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be
ashamed because of their sacrifices.
5:1
Hear all of you this, O priests; and hearken, all of you
house of Israel; and give all of you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is
toward you, because all of you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon
Tabor.
5:2 And
the apostates are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of
them all.
5:3 I
know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom,
and Israel is defiled.
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.
5:5 And
the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim
fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
5:6
They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to
seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
5:7 They
have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children:
now shall a month devour them with their portions.
5:8
Blow all of you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in
Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.
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.
5:10
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he
willingly walked after the commandment.
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Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house
of Judah as rottenness.
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.
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.
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.
6:1 Come,
and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has
smitten, and he will bind us up.
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.
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.
6:4
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto you? O Judah, what shall
I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it
goes away.
6:5 Therefore
have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth:
and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.
6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God more than burnt offerings.
6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there
have they dealt treacherously against me.
6:8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted
with blood.
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.
6:10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there
is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he has set an harvest for you, when I returned
the captivity of my people.
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 comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.
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.
7:3 They
make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
7:4 They
are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after
he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with
bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while
they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as
a flaming fire.
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 calls unto me.
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Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim
is a cake not turned.
7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not:
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.
7:10
And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they
do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
7:11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call
to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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
has heard.
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.
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.
7:15 Though
I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against
me.
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.
8:1
Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle
against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and
trespassed against my law.
8:2
Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you.
8:3
Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall
pursue him.
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.
8:5 Your
calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long
will it be before they attain to innocence?
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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.
8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers
shall swallow it up.
8:8
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles
as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim has hired lovers.
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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.
8:11 Because
Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
8:12 I have
written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange
thing.
8:13 They
sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD
accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they
shall return to Egypt.
8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples;
and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you
have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon floors of corn.
9:2 The
floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
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.
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.
9:5
What will all of you do in the solemn day, and in the day
of the feast of the LORD?
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.
9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence
are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of yours iniquity, and the great hatred.
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.
9:9 They
have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will
remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
fathers as the first-fruits 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.
9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,
from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
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!
9:13 Ephraim,
as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth
his children to the murderer.
9:14
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying
womb and dry breasts.
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 apostates.
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.
9:17 My
God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall
be wanderers among the nations.
10:1
Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit unto himself:
according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according
to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
10:2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:
he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
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?
10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:
thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
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.
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.
10:7
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the
water.
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.
10:9
O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there
they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake
them.
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.
10:11
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loves 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.
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 comes and rain
righteousness upon you.
10:13
All of you have plowed wickedness, all of you have reaped
iniquity; all of you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your
way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all
your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle:
the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
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.
11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my
son out of Egypt.
11:2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed
unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
11:3
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms;
but they knew not that I healed them.
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 food unto
them.
11:5 He
shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because
they refused to return.
11:6
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume
his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
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.
11:8
How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you,
Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboim? mine heart
is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
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 you: and I will not enter into the city.
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.
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, says the LORD.
11:12 Ephraim
compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet
rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.
12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind:
he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians,
and oil is carried into Egypt.
12:2
The LORD has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish
Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
12:3 He took
his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
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 spoke with us;
12:5
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
12:6 Therefore
turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on your God continually.
12:7 He
is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
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.
12:9
And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will
yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
12:10 I have
also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes,
by the ministry of the prophets.
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.
12:12 And
Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a
wife he kept sheep.
12:13
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and
by a prophet was he preserved.
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.
13:1 When
Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in
Baal, he died.
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.
13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the
early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out
of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
13:4
Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, and you
shall know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
13:5
I did know you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
13:6 According
to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted;
therefore have they forgotten me.
13:7
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by
the way will I observe them:
13:8
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps,
and will rend the lobe of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion:
the wild beast shall tear them.
13:9
O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is yours
help.
13:10 I
will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and
your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?
13:11
I gave you a king in mine anger, and took him away in my
wrath.
13:12 The
iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
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 out
of children.
13:14 I
will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O
death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance
shall be hid from mine eyes.
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.
13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she has 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.
14:1
O israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen
by yours iniquity.
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.
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, All of you are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds
mercy.
14:4 I
will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned
away from him.
14:5 I
will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his
roots as Lebanon.
14:6
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
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.
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 your fruit found.
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.