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king james study
HO-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.
HO-1:2 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.
HO-1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
conceived,
and bare him a son.
HO-1:4 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.
HO-1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break
the bow of
Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and
bare a son.
HO-1:9 Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not
my people, and
I will not be your [God].
HO-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, Ye [are] not my people,
[there] it
shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
HO-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.
HO-2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
HO-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;
HO-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.
HO-2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they
[be] the
children of whoredoms.
HO-2:5 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.
HO-2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
and make a
wall, that she shall not find her paths.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-2:9 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.
HO-2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and
none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
HO-2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days,
her new
moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
HO-2:12 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.
HO-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 forgat me, saith the LORD.
HO-2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
HO-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.
HO-2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou
shalt call
me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-2:19 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.
HO-2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and
thou shalt know
the LORD.
HO-2:21 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;
HO-2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
oil; and
they shall hear Jezreel.
HO-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, Thou [art] my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my
God.
HO-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.
HO-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:
HO-3:3 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.
HO-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:
HO-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.
HO-4:1 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.
HO-4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
HO-4:3 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.
HO-4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy
people [are] as
they that strive with the priest.
HO-4:5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet
also shall fall
with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
HO-4:6 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.
HO-4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
[therefore] will I
change their glory into shame.
HO-4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their
heart on their
iniquity.
HO-4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
punish them
for their ways, and reward them their doings.
HO-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.
HO-4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
HO-4:12 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.
HO-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.
HO-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] doth
not
understand shall fall.
HO-4:15 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.
HO-4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the
LORD will
feed them as a lamb in a large place.
HO-4:17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
HO-4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom
continually: her
rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
HO-4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall
be ashamed
because of their sacrifices.
HO-5:1 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.
HO-5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though
I [have been]
a rebuker of them all.
HO-5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O
Ephraim,
thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.
HO-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.
HO-5:5 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.
HO-5:6 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.
HO-5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they
have begotten
strange children: now shall a month devour them with their
portions.
HO-5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah:
cry aloud
[at] Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
HO-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.
HO-5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the
bound:
[therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
HO-5:11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because
he willingly
walked after the commandment.
HO-5:12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to
the house of
Judah as rottenness.
HO-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.
HO-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].
HO-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.
HO-6:1 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.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-6:4 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.
HO-6:5 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.
HO-6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God more
than burnt offerings.
HO-6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there
have they
dealt treacherously against me.
HO-6:8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is]
polluted with
blood.
HO-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.
HO-6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:
there [is] the
whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
HO-6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the
captivity of my people.
HO-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 cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.
HO-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.
HO-7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
princes with
their lies.
HO-7:4 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.
HO-7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick
with bottles
of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
HO-7:6 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.
HO-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 calleth unto me.
HO-7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim
is a cake not
turned.
HO-7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it]
not: yea,
gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
HO-7:10 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.
HO-7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they
call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
HO-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
hath heard.
HO-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.
HO-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.
HO-7:15 Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet
do they
imagine mischief against me.
HO-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.
HO-8:1 [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.
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