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1:1 The word of 1:6 And she

the LORD that conceived again,

came unto Hosea, and bare a

the son of Beeri, daughter. And

in the days of [God] said unto

Uzziah, Jotham, him, Call her

Ahaz, [and] name Loruhamah:

Hezekiah, kings for I will no

of Judah, and in more have mercy

the days of upon the house of

Jeroboam the son Israel; but I

of Joash, king of will utterly take

Israel. them away.

1:2 The 1:7 But I will

beginning of the have mercy upon

word of the LORD the house of

by Hosea. And the Judah, and will

LORD said to save them by the

Hosea, Go, take LORD their God,

unto thee a wife and will not save

of whoredoms and them by bow, nor

children of by sword, nor by

whoredoms: for battle, by

the land hath horses, nor by

committed great horsemen.

whoredom, 1:8 Now when she

[departing] from had weaned

the LORD. Loruhamah, she

1:3 So he went conceived, and

and took Gomer bare a son.

the daughter of 1:9 Then said

Diblaim; which [God], Call his

conceived, and name Loammi: for

bare him a son. ye [are] not my

1:4 And the LORD people, and I

said unto him, will not be your

Call his name [God].

Jezreel; for yet 1:10 Yet the

a little [while], number of the

and I will avenge children of

the blood of Israel shall be

Jezreel upon the as the sand of

house of Jehu, the sea, which

and will cause to cannot be

cease the kingdom measured nor

of the house of numbered; and it

Israel. shall come to

1:5 And it shall pass, [that] in

come to pass at the place where

that day, that I it was said unto

will break the them, Ye [are]

bow of Israel in not my people,

the valley of [there] it shall

Jezreel. be said unto











them, [Ye are] 2:5 For their

the sons of the mother hath

living God. played the

1:11 Then shall harlot: she that

the children of conceived them

Judah and the hath done

children of shamefully: for

Israel be she said, I will

gathered go after my

together, and lovers, that give

appoint [me] my bread and

themselves one my water, my wool

head, and they and my flax, mine

shall come up out oil and my drink.

of the land: for

great [shall be] 2:6 Therefore,

the day of behold, I will

Jezreel. hedge up thy way

2:1 Say ye unto with thorns, and

your brethren, make a wall, that

Ammi; and to your she shall not

sisters, Ruhamah. find her paths.

2:7 And she

2:2 Plead with shall follow

your mother, after her lovers,

plead: for she but she shall not

[is] not my wife, overtake them;

neither [am] I and she shall

her husband: let seek them, but

her therefore put shall not find

away her [them]: then

whoredoms out of shall she say, I

her sight, and will go and

her adulteries return to my

from between her first husband;

breasts; for then [was it]

2:3 Lest I strip better with me

her naked, and than now.

set her as in the 2:8 For she did

day that she was not know that I

born, and make gave her corn,

her as a and wine, and

wilderness, and oil, and

set her like a multiplied her

dry land, and silver and gold,

slay her with [which] they

thirst. prepared for

2:4 And I will Baal.

not have mercy 2:9 Therefore

upon her will I return,

children; for and take away my

they [be] the corn in the time

children of thereof, and my

whoredoms. wine in the











season thereof, the wilderness,

and will recover and speak

my wool and my comfortably unto

flax [given] to her.

cover her 2:15 And I will

nakedness. give her her

2:10 And now vineyards from

will I discover thence, and the

her lewdness in valley of Achor

the sight of her for a door of

lovers, and none hope: and she

shall deliver her shall sing there,

out of mine hand. as in the days of

her youth, and as

2:11 I will also in the day when

cause all her she came up out

mirth to cease, of the land of

her feast days, Egypt.

her new moons, 2:16 And it

and her sabbaths, shall be at that

and all her day, saith the

solemn feasts. LORD, [that] thou

2:12 And I will shalt call me

destroy her vines Ishi; and shalt

and her fig call me no more

trees, whereof Baali.

she hath said, 2:17 For I will

These [are] my take away the

rewards that my names of Baalim

lovers have given out of her mouth,

me: and I will and they shall no

make them a more be

forest, and the remembered by

beasts of the their name.

field shall eat 2:18 And in that

them. day will I make a

2:13 And I will covenant for them

visit upon her with the beasts

the days of of the field, and

Baalim, wherein with the fowls of

she burned heaven, and

incense to them, [with] the

and she decked creeping things

herself with her of the ground:

earrings and her and I will break

jewels, and she the bow and the

went after her sword and the

lovers, and battle out of the

forgat me, saith earth, and will

the LORD. make them to lie

2:14 Therefore, down safely.

behold, I will 2:19 And I will

allure her, and betroth thee unto

bring her into me for ever; yea,











I will betroth to other gods,

thee unto me in and love flagons

righteousness, of wine.

and in judgment, 3:2 So I bought

and in her to me for

lovingkindness, fifteen [pieces]

and in mercies. of silver, and

2:20 I will even [for] an homer of

betroth thee unto barley, and an

me in half homer of

faithfulness: and barley:

thou shalt know 3:3 And I said

the LORD. unto her, Thou

2:21 And it shalt abide for

shall come to me many days;

pass in that day, thou shalt not

I will hear, play the harlot,

saith the LORD, I and thou shalt

will hear the not be for

heavens, and they [another] man: so

shall hear the [will] I also

earth; [be] for thee.

2:22 And the 3:4 For the

earth shall hear children of

the corn, and the Israel shall

wine, and the abide many days

oil; and they without a king,

shall hear and without a

Jezreel. prince, and

2:23 And I will without a

sow her unto me sacrifice, and

in the earth; and without an image,

I will have mercy and without an

upon her that had ephod, and

not obtained [without]

mercy; and I will teraphim:

say to [them 3:5 Afterward

which were] not shall the

my people, Thou children of

[art] my people; Israel return,

and they shall and seek the LORD

say, [Thou art] their God, and

my God. David their king;

3:1 Then said and shall fear

the LORD unto me, the LORD and his

Go yet, love a goodness in the

woman beloved of latter days.

[her] friend, yet 4:1 Hear the

an adulteress, word of the LORD,

according to the ye children of

love of the LORD Israel: for the

toward the LORD hath a

children of controversy with

Israel, who look the inhabitants











of the land, me: seeing thou

because [there hast forgotten

is] no truth, nor the law of thy

mercy, nor God, I will also

knowledge of God forget thy

in the land. children.

4:2 By swearing, 4:7 As they were

and lying, and increased, so

killing, and they sinned

stealing, and against me:

committing [therefore] will

adultery, they I change their

break out, and glory into shame.

blood toucheth

blood. 4:8 They eat up

4:3 Therefore the sin of my

shall the land people, and they

mourn, and every set their heart

one that dwelleth on their

therein shall iniquity.

languish, with 4:9 And there

the beasts of the shall be, like

field, and with people, like

the fowls of priest: and I

heaven; yea, the will punish them

fishes of the sea for their ways,

also shall be and reward them

taken away. their doings.

4:4 Yet let no 4:10 For they

man strive, nor shall eat, and

reprove another: not have enough:

for thy people they shall commit

[are] as they whoredom, and

that strive with shall not

the priest. increase: because

4:5 Therefore they have left

shalt thou fall off to take heed

in the day, and to the LORD.

the prophet also 4:11 Whoredom

shall fall with and wine and new

thee in the wine take away

night, and I will the heart.

destroy thy 4:12 My people

mother. ask counsel at

4:6 My people their stocks, and

are destroyed for their staff

lack of declareth unto

knowledge: them: for the

because thou hast spirit of

rejected whoredoms hath

knowledge, I will caused [them] to

also reject thee, err, and they

that thou shalt have gone a

be no priest to whoring from











under their God. 4:17 Ephraim

4:13 They [is] joined to

sacrifice upon idols: let him

the tops of the alone.

mountains, and 4:18 Their drink

burn incense upon is sour: they

the hills, under have committed

oaks and poplars whoredom

and elms, because continually: her

the shadow rulers [with]

thereof [is] shame do love,

good: therefore Give ye.

your daughters 4:19 The wind

shall commit hath bound her up

whoredom, and in her wings, and

your spouses they shall be

shall commit ashamed because

adultery. of their

4:14 I will not sacrifices.

punish your 5:1 Hear ye

daughters when this, O priests;

they commit and hearken, ye

whoredom, nor house of Israel;

your spouses when and give ye ear,

they commit O house of the

adultery: for king; for

themselves are judgment [is]

separated with toward you,

whores, and they because ye have

sacrifice with been a snare on

harlots: Mizpah, and a net

therefore the spread upon

people [that] Tabor.

doth not 5:2 And the

understand shall revolters are

fall. profound to make

4:15 Though slaughter, though

thou, Israel, I [have been] a

play the harlot, rebuker of them

[yet] let not all.

Judah offend; and 5:3 I know

come not ye unto Ephraim, and

Gilgal, neither Israel is not hid

go ye up to from me: for now,

Bethaven, nor O Ephraim, thou

swear, The LORD committest

liveth. whoredom, [and]

4:16 For Israel Israel is

slideth back as a defiled.

backsliding 5:4 They will

heifer: now the not frame their

LORD will feed doings to turn

them as a lamb in unto their God:

a large place. for the spirit of











whoredoms [is] in remove the bound:

the midst of [therefore] I

them, and they will pour out my

have not known wrath upon them

the LORD. like water.

5:5 And the 5:11 Ephraim

pride of Israel [is] oppressed

doth testify to [and] broken in

his face: judgment, because

therefore shall he willingly

Israel and walked after the

Ephraim fall in commandment.

their iniquity; 5:12 Therefore

Judah also shall [will] I [be]

fall with them. unto Ephraim as a

5:6 They shall moth, and to the

go with their house of Judah as

flocks and with rottenness.

their herds to 5:13 When

seek the LORD; Ephraim saw his

but they shall sickness, and

not find [him]; Judah [saw] his

he hath withdrawn wound, then went

himself from Ephraim to the

them. Assyrian, and

5:7 They have sent to king

dealt Jareb: yet could

treacherously he not heal you,

against the LORD: nor cure you of

for they have your wound.

begotten strange 5:14 For I [will

children: now be] unto Ephraim

shall a month as a lion, and as

devour them with a young lion to

their portions. the house of

5:8 Blow ye the Judah: I, [even]

cornet in Gibeah, I, will tear and

[and] the trumpet go away; I will

in Ramah: cry take away, and

aloud [at] none shall rescue

Bethaven, after [him].

thee, O Benjamin. 5:15 I will go

[and] return to

5:9 Ephraim my place, till

shall be desolate they acknowledge

in the day of their offence,

rebuke: among the and seek my face:

tribes of Israel in their

have I made known affliction they

that which shall will seek me

surely be. early.

5:10 The princes 6:1 Come, and

of Judah were let us return

like them that unto the LORD:











for he hath torn, transgressed the

and he will heal covenant: there

us; he hath have they dealt

smitten, and he treacherously

will bind us up. against me.

6:2 After two 6:8 Gilead [is]

days will he a city of them

revive us: in the that work

third day he will iniquity, [and

raise us up, and is] polluted with

we shall live in blood.

his sight. 6:9 And as

6:3 Then shall troops of robbers

we know, [if] we wait for a man,

follow on to know [so] the company

the LORD: his of priests murder

going forth is in the way by

prepared as the consent: for they

morning; and he commit lewdness.

shall come unto 6:10 I have seen

us as the rain, an horrible thing

as the latter in the house of

[and] former rain Israel: there

unto the earth. [is] the whoredom

6:4 O Ephraim, of Ephraim,

what shall I do Israel is

unto thee? O defiled.

Judah, what shall 6:11 Also, O

I do unto thee? Judah, he hath

for your goodness set an harvest

[is] as a morning for thee, when I

cloud, and as the returned the

early dew it captivity of my

goeth away. people.

6:5 Therefore 7:1 When I would

have I hewed have healed

[them] by the Israel, then the

prophets; I have iniquity of

slain them by the Ephraim was

words of my discovered, and

mouth: and thy the wickedness of

judgments [are Samaria: for they

as] the light commit falsehood;

[that] goeth and the thief

forth. cometh in, [and]

6:6 For I the troop of

desired mercy, robbers spoileth

and not without.

sacrifice; and 7:2 And they

the knowledge of consider not in

God more than their hearts

burnt offerings. [that] I remember

6:7 But they all their

like men have wickedness: now











their own doings 7:9 Strangers

have beset them have devoured his

about; they are strength, and he

before my face. knoweth [it] not:

7:3 They make yea, gray hairs

the king glad are here and

with their there upon him,

wickedness, and yet he knoweth

the princes with not.

their lies. 7:10 And the

7:4 They [are] pride of Israel

all adulterers, testifieth to his

as an oven heated face: and they do

by the baker, not return to the

[who] ceaseth LORD their God,

from raising nor seek him for

after he hath all this.

kneaded the 7:11 Ephraim

dough, until it also is like a

be leavened. silly dove

7:5 In the day without heart:

of our king the they call to

princes have made Egypt, they go to

[him] sick with Assyria.

bottles of wine; 7:12 When they

he stretched out shall go, I will

his hand with spread my net

scorners. upon them; I will

7:6 For they bring them down

have made ready as the fowls of

their heart like the heaven; I

an oven, whiles will chastise

they lie in wait: them, as their

their baker congregation hath

sleepeth all the heard.

night; in the 7:13 Woe unto

morning it them! for they

burneth as a have fled from

flaming fire. me: destruction

7:7 They are all unto them!

hot as an oven, because they have

and have devoured transgressed

their judges; all against me:

their kings are though I have

fallen: [there redeemed them,

is] none among yet they have

them that calleth spoken lies

unto me. against me.

7:8 Ephraim, he 7:14 And they

hath mixed have not cried

himself among the unto me with

people; Ephraim their heart, when

is a cake not they howled upon

turned. their beds: they











assemble they made them

themselves for idols, that they

corn and wine, may be cut off.

[and] they rebel 8:5 Thy calf, O

against me. Samaria, hath

7:15 Though I cast [thee] off;

have bound [and] mine anger is

strengthened kindled against

their arms, yet them: how long

do they imagine [will it be] ere

mischief against they attain to

me. innocency?

7:16 They 8:6 For from

return, [but] not Israel [was] it

to the most High: also: the workman

they are like a made it;

deceitful bow: therefore it [is]

their princes not God: but the

shall fall by the calf of Samaria

sword for the shall be broken

rage of their in pieces.

tongue: this 8:7 For they

[shall be] their have sown the

derision in the wind, and they

land of Egypt. shall reap the

8:1 [Set] the whirlwind: it

trumpet to thy hath no stalk:

mouth. [He shall the bud shall

come] as an eagle yield no meal: if

against the house so be it yield,

of the LORD, the strangers

because they have shall swallow it

transgressed my up.

covenant, and 8:8 Israel is

trespassed swallowed up: now

against my law. shall they be

8:2 Israel shall among the

cry unto me, My Gentiles as a

God, we know vessel wherein

thee. [is] no pleasure.

8:3 Israel hath

cast off [the 8:9 For they are

thing that is] gone up to

good: the enemy Assyria, a wild

shall pursue him. ass alone by

himself: Ephraim

8:4 They have hath hired

set up kings, but lovers.

not by me: they 8:10 Yea, though

have made they have hired

princes, and I among the

knew [it] not: of nations, now will

their silver and I gather them,

their gold have and they shall











sorrow a little and the winepress

for the burden of shall not feed

the king of them, and the new

princes. wine shall fail

8:11 Because in her.

Ephraim hath made 9:3 They shall

many altars to not dwell in the

sin, altars shall LORD'S land; but

be unto him to Ephraim shall

sin. return to Egypt,

8:12 I have and they shall

written to him eat unclean

the great things [things] in

of my law, [but] Assyria.

they were counted 9:4 They shall

as a strange not offer wine

thing. [offerings] to

8:13 They the LORD, neither

sacrifice flesh shall they be

[for] the pleasing unto

sacrifices of him: their

mine offerings, sacrifices [shall

and eat [it; but] be] unto them as

the LORD the bread of

accepteth them mourners; all

not; now will he that eat thereof

remember their shall be

iniquity, and polluted: for

visit their sins: their bread for

they shall return their soul shall

to Egypt. not come into the

8:14 For Israel house of the

hath forgotten LORD.

his Maker, and 9:5 What will ye

buildeth temples; do in the solemn

and Judah hath day, and in the

multiplied fenced day of the feast

cities: but I of the LORD?

will send a fire 9:6 For, lo,

upon his cities, they are gone

and it shall because of

devour the destruction:

palaces thereof. Egypt shall

9:1 Rejoice not, gather them up,

O Israel, for Memphis shall

joy, as [other] bury them: the

people: for thou pleasant [places]

hast gone a for their silver,

whoring from thy nettles shall

God, thou hast possess them:

loved a reward thorns [shall be]

upon every in their

cornfloor. tabernacles.

9:2 The floor 9:7 The days of











visitation are from the birth,

come, the days of and from the

recompense are womb, and from

come; Israel the conception.

shall know [it]: 9:12 Though they

the prophet [is] bring up their

a fool, the children, yet

spiritual man will I bereave

[is] mad, for the them, [that there

multitude of shall] not [be] a

thine iniquity, man [left]: yea,

and the great woe also to them

hatred. when I depart

9:8 The watchman from them!

of Ephraim [was] 9:13 Ephraim, as

with my God: I saw Tyrus, [is]

[but] the prophet planted in a

[is] a snare of a pleasant place:

fowler in all his but Ephraim shall

ways, [and] bring forth his

hatred in the children to the

house of his God. murderer.

9:14 Give them,

9:9 They have O LORD: what wilt

deeply corrupted thou give? give

[themselves], as them a

in the days of miscarrying womb

Gibeah: and dry breasts.

[therefore] he 9:15 All their

will remember wickedness [is]

their iniquity, in Gilgal: for

he will visit there I hated

their sins. them: for the

9:10 I found wickedness of

Israel like their doings I

grapes in the will drive them

wilderness; I saw out of mine

your fathers as house, I will

the firstripe in love them no

the fig tree at more: all their

her first time: princes [are]

[but] they went revolters.

to Baalpeor, and 9:16 Ephraim is

separated smitten, their

themselves unto root is dried up,

[that] shame; and they shall bear

[their] no fruit: yea,

abominations were though they bring

according as they forth, yet will I

loved. slay [even] the

9:11 [As for] beloved [fruit]

Ephraim, their of their womb.

glory shall fly 9:17 My God will

away like a bird, cast them away,











because they did priests thereof

not hearken unto [that] rejoiced

him: and they on it, for the

shall be glory thereof,

wanderers among because it is

the nations. departed from it.

10:1 Israel [is]

an empty vine, he 10:6 It shall be

bringeth forth also carried unto

fruit unto Assyria [for] a

himself: present to king

according to the Jareb: Ephraim

multitude of his shall receive

fruit he hath shame, and Israel

increased the shall be ashamed

altars; according of his own

to the goodness counsel.

of his land they 10:7 [As for]

have made goodly Samaria, her king

images. is cut off as the

10:2 Their heart foam upon the

is divided; now water.

shall they be 10:8 The high

found faulty: he places also of

shall break down Aven, the sin of

their altars, he Israel, shall be

shall spoil their destroyed: the

images. thorn and the

10:3 For now thistle shall

they shall say, come up on their

We have no king, altars; and they

because we feared shall say to the

not the LORD; mountains, Cover

what then should us; and to the

a king do to us? hills, Fall on

10:4 They have us.

spoken words, 10:9 O Israel,

swearing falsely thou hast sinned

in making a from the days of

covenant: thus Gibeah: there

judgment they stood: the

springeth up as battle in Gibeah

hemlock in the against the

furrows of the children of

field. iniquity did not

10:5 The overtake them.

inhabitants of 10:10 [It is] in

Samaria shall my desire that I

fear because of should chastise

the calves of them; and the

Bethaven: for the people shall be

people thereof gathered against

shall mourn over them, when they

it, and the shall bind











themselves in you because of

their two your great

furrows. wickedness: in a

10:11 And morning shall the

Ephraim [is as] king of Israel

an heifer [that utterly be cut

is] taught, [and] off.

loveth to tread 11:1 When Israel

out [the corn]; [was] a child,

but I passed over then I loved him,

upon her fair and called my son

neck: I will make out of Egypt.

Ephraim to ride; 11:2 [As] they

Judah shall plow, called them, so

[and] Jacob shall they went from

break his clods. them: they

10:12 Sow to sacrificed unto

yourselves in Baalim, and

righteousness, burned incense to

reap in mercy; graven images.

break up your 11:3 I taught

fallow ground: Ephraim also to

for [it is] time go, taking them

to seek the LORD, by their arms;

till he come and but they knew not

rain that I healed

righteousness them.

upon you. 11:4 I drew them

10:13 Ye have with cords of a

plowed man, with bands

wickedness, ye of love: and I

have reaped was to them as

iniquity; ye have they that take

eaten the fruit off the yoke on

of lies: because their jaws, and I

thou didst trust laid meat unto

in thy way, in them.

the multitude of 11:5 He shall

thy mighty men. not return into

10:14 Therefore the land of

shall a tumult Egypt, but the

arise among thy Assyrian shall be

people, and all his king, because

thy fortresses they refused to

shall be spoiled, return.

as Shalman 11:6 And the

spoiled Betharbel sword shall abide

in the day of on his cities,

battle: the and shall consume

mother was dashed his branches, and

in pieces upon devour [them],

[her] children. because of their

10:15 So shall own counsels.

Bethel do unto 11:7 And my











people are bent about with lies,

to backsliding and the house of

from me: though Israel with

they called them deceit: but Judah

to the most High, yet ruleth with

none at all would God, and is

exalt [him]. faithful with the

11:8 How shall I saints.

give thee up, 12:1 Ephraim

Ephraim? [how] feedeth on wind,

shall I deliver and followeth

thee, Israel? how after the east

shall I make thee wind: he daily

as Admah? [how] increaseth lies

shall I set thee and desolation;

as Zeboim? mine and they do make

heart is turned a covenant with

within me, my the Assyrians,

repentings are and oil is

kindled together. carried into

Egypt.

11:9 I will not 12:2 The LORD

execute the hath also a

fierceness of controversy with

mine anger, I Judah, and will

will not return punish Jacob

to destroy according to his

Ephraim: for I ways; according

[am] God, and not to his doings

man; the Holy One will he

in the midst of recompense him.

thee: and I will 12:3 He took his

not enter into brother by the

the city. heel in the womb,

11:10 They shall and by his

walk after the strength he had

LORD: he shall power with God:

roar like a lion: 12:4 Yea, he had

when he shall power over the

roar, then the angel, and

children shall prevailed: he

tremble from the wept, and made

west. supplication unto

11:11 They shall him: he found him

tremble as a bird [in] Bethel, and

out of Egypt, and there he spake

as a dove out of with us;

the land of 12:5 Even the

Assyria: and I LORD God of

will place them hosts; the LORD

in their houses, [is] his

saith the LORD. memorial.

11:12 Ephraim 12:6 Therefore

compasseth me turn thou to thy











God: keep mercy for a wife, and

and judgment, and for a wife he

wait on thy God kept [sheep].

continually. 12:13 And by a

12:7 [He is] a prophet the LORD

merchant, the brought Israel

balances of out of Egypt, and

deceit [are] in by a prophet was

his hand: he he preserved.

loveth to 12:14 Ephraim

oppress. provoked [him] to

12:8 And Ephraim anger most

said, Yet I am bitterly:

become rich, I therefore shall

have found me out he leave his

substance: [in] blood upon him,

all my labours and his reproach

they shall find shall his Lord

none iniquity in return unto him.

me that [were] 13:1 When

sin. Ephraim spake

12:9 And I [that trembling, he

am] the LORD thy exalted himself

God from the land in Israel; but

of Egypt will yet when he offended

make thee to in Baal, he died.

dwell in

tabernacles, as 13:2 And now

in the days of they sin more and

the solemn feast. more, and have

made them molten

12:10 I have images of their

also spoken by silver, [and]

the prophets, and idols according

I have multiplied to their own

visions, and used understanding,

similitudes, by all of it the

the ministry of work of the

the prophets. craftsmen: they

12:11 [Is there] say of them, Let

iniquity [in] the men that

Gilead? surely sacrifice kiss

they are vanity: the calves.

they sacrifice 13:3 Therefore

bullocks in they shall be as

Gilgal; yea, the morning

their altars cloud, and as the

[are] as heaps in early dew that

the furrows of passeth away, as

the fields. the chaff [that]

12:12 And Jacob is driven with

fled into the the whirlwind out

country of Syria, of the floor, and

and Israel served as the smoke out











of the chimney. cities? and thy

13:4 Yet I [am] judges of whom

the LORD thy God thou saidst, Give

from the land of me a king and

Egypt, and thou princes?

shalt know no god 13:11 I gave

but me: for thee a king in

[there is] no mine anger, and

saviour beside took [him] away

me. in my wrath.

13:5 I did know 13:12 The

thee in the iniquity of

wilderness, in Ephraim [is]

the land of great bound up; his sin

drought. [is] hid.

13:6 According 13:13 The

to their pasture, sorrows of a

so were they travailing woman

filled; they were shall come upon

filled, and their him: he [is] an

heart was unwise son; for

exalted; he should not

therefore have stay long in [the

they forgotten place of] the

me. breaking forth of

13:7 Therefore I children.

will be unto them 13:14 I will

as a lion: as a ransom them from

leopard by the the power of the

way will I grave; I will

observe [them]: redeem them from

13:8 I will meet death: O death, I

them as a bear will be thy

[that is] plagues; O grave,

bereaved [of her I will be thy

whelps], and will destruction:

rend the caul of repentance shall

their heart, and be hid from mine

there will I eyes.

devour them like 13:15 Though he

a lion: the wild be fruitful among

beast shall tear [his] brethren,

them. an east wind

13:9 O Israel, shall come, the

thou hast wind of the LORD

destroyed shall come up

thyself; but in from the

me [is] thine wilderness, and

help. his spring shall

13:10 I will be become dry, and

thy king: where his fountain

[is any other] shall be dried

that may save up: he shall

thee in all thy spoil the











treasure of all Israel: he shall

pleasant vessels. grow as the lily,

and cast forth

13:16 Samaria his roots as

shall become Lebanon.

desolate; for she 14:6 His

hath rebelled branches shall

against her God: spread, and his

they shall fall beauty shall be

by the sword: as the olive

their infants tree, and his

shall be dashed smell as Lebanon.

in pieces, and

their women with 14:7 They that

child shall be dwell under his

ripped up. shadow shall

14:1 O Israel, return; they

return unto the shall revive [as]

LORD thy God; for the corn, and

thou hast fallen grow as the vine:

by thine the scent thereof

iniquity. [shall be] as the

14:2 Take with wine of Lebanon.

you words, and 14:8 Ephraim

turn to the LORD: [shall say], What

say unto him, have I to do any

Take away all more with idols?

iniquity, and I have heard

receive [us] [him], and

graciously: so observed him: I

will we render [am] like a green

the calves of our fir tree. From me

lips. is thy fruit

14:3 Asshur found.

shall not save 14:9 Who [is]

us; we will not wise, and he

ride upon horses: shall understand

neither will we these [things]?

say any more to prudent, and he

the work of our shall know them?

hands, [Ye are] for the ways of

our gods: for in the LORD [are]

thee the right, and the

fatherless just shall walk

findeth mercy. in them: but the

14:4 I will heal transgressors

their shall fall

backsliding, I therein.

will love them ^Z^Z

freely: for mine

anger is turned

away from him.

14:5 I will be

as the dew unto