The Book of Hosea

 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim;

which conceived, and bare him a son.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will

break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and

bare a son.

HOSEA 1:9 Then said {God}, Call his name Loammi: for ye {are} not

my people, and I will not be your {God}.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,

Ruhamah.

HOSEA 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;

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they

{be} the children of whoredoms.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,

and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of

her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her

into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and

thou shalt know the Lord.

HOSEA 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;

HOSEA 2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and

the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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:

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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:

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and

committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy

people {are} as they that strive with the priest.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:

{therefore} will I change their glory into shame.

HOSEA 4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their

heart on their iniquity.

HOSEA 4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I

will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now

the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

HOSEA 4:17 Ephraim {is} joined to idols: let him alone.

HOSEA 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom

continually: her rulers {with} shame do love, Give ye.

HOSEA 4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they

shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,

though I {have been} a rebuker of them all.

HOSEA 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now,

O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, {and} Israel is defiled.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for

they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour

them with their portions.

HOSEA 5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, {and} the trumpet in

Ramah: cry aloud {at} Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the

bound: {therefore} I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

HOSEA 5:11 Ephraim {is} oppressed {and} broken in judgment,

because he willingly walked after the commandment.

HOSEA 5:12 Therefore {will} I {be} unto Ephraim as a moth, and to

the house of Judah as rottenness.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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}.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the

knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

HOSEA 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there

have they dealt treacherously against me.

HOSEA 6:8 Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is}

polluted with blood.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:

there {is} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

HOSEA 6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I

returned the captivity of my people.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the

princes with their lies.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they

call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 7:15 Though I have bound {and} strengthened their arms, yet

do they imagine mischief against me.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

HOSEA 8:3 Israel hath cast off {the thing that is} good: the

enemy shall pursue him.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast {thee} off; mine anger

is kindled against them: how long {will it be} ere they attain to

innocency?

HOSEA 8:6 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.

HOSEA 8:7 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.

HOSEA 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the

Gentiles as a vessel wherein {is} no pleasure.

HOSEA 8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by

himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

HOSEA 8:10 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.

HOSEA 8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars

shall be unto him to sin.

HOSEA 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law,

{but} they were counted as a strange thing.

HOSEA 8:13 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.

HOSEA 8:14 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.

HOSEA 9:1 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.

HOSEA 9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and

the new wine shall fail in her.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of

the feast of the Lord?

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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 thine iniquity, and

the great hatred.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 9:9 They have deeply corrupted {themselves}, as in the days

of Gibeah: {therefore} he will remember their iniquity, he will

visit their sins.

HOSEA 9:10 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.

HOSEA 9:11 {As for} Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a

bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

HOSEA 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!

HOSEA 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, {is} planted in a pleasant

place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the

murderer.

HOSEA 9:14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a

miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

HOSEA 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}

revolters.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not

hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

HOSEA 10:1 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.

HOSEA 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found

faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their

images.

HOSEA 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?

HOSEA 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a

covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of

the field.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 10:7 {As for} Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon

the water.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 10:9 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 10:11 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.

HOSEA 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 come and rain righteousness upon you.

HOSEA 10:13 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.

HOSEA 10:14 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 11:1 When Israel {was} a child, then I loved him, and

called my son out of Egypt.

HOSEA 11:2 {As} they called them, so they went from them: they

sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

HOSEA 11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their

arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

HOSEA 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 meat unto them.

HOSEA 11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the

Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

HOSEA 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall

consume his branches, and devour {them}, because of their own

counsels.

HOSEA 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}.

HOSEA 11:8 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.

HOSEA 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 thee: and I will not enter into the

city.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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, saith the Lord.

HOSEA 11:12 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.

HOSEA 12:1 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.

HOSEA 12:2 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will

punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will

he recompense him.

HOSEA 12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by

his strength he had power with God:

HOSEA 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 spake with us;

HOSEA 12:5 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord {is} his

memorial.

HOSEA 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and

judgment and wait on thy God continually.

HOSEA 12:7 {He is} a merchant, the balances of deceit {are} in

his hand: he loveth to oppress.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 12:9 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.

HOSEA 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have

multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the

prophets.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel

served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.

HOSEA 12:13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of

Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in

Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 13:3 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.

HOSEA 13:4 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.

HOSEA 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of

great drought.

HOSEA 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they

were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they

forgotten me.

HOSEA 13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard

by the way will I observe {them}:

HOSEA 13:8 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.

HOSEA 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me {is}

thine help.

HOSEA 13:10 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?

HOSEA 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took {him} away

in my wrath.

HOSEA 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim {is} bound up; his sin {is}

hid.

HOSEA 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 forth of children.

HOSEA 13:14 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.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 13:16 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.

HOSEA 14:1 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast

fallen by thine iniquity.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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,

{Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

HOSEA 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them

freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

HOSEA 14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the

lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

HOSEA 14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as

the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

HOSEA 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.

HOSEA 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 thy fruit found.

HOSEA 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.