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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
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.
\VS{2}The start
of
the
word
of
the
Lord
by
Hosea:
And
the
Lord
said
to
Hosea, Go,
take
for
yourself
a
wife
of loose ways,
and
children
of
the same,
for
the
land
has
been untrue
to
the
Lord.
\VS{3}So
he
took
as
his wife
Gomer,
the
daughter
of Diblaim,
and she
gave
birth
to
a
son.
\VS{4}And
the
Lord
said
to
him, Give
him
the
name
of
Jezreel,
for
after
a
little
time
I
will send
punishment
for
the
blood
of
Jezreel
on
the line
of
Jehu,
and
put
an end
to
the
kingdom
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
in
that
day
I
will
let
the
bow
of
Israel
be
broken
in
the
valley
of
Jezreel.
\VS{6}And
after
that
she
gave
birth
to
a
daughter.
And
the Lord
said,
Give
her
the
name
Lo-ruhamah;
for
I
will
not
again
have
mercy
on
Israel,
to
give
them forgiveness.
\VS{7}But
I
will
have
mercy
on
Judah
and
will give
them
salvation
by
the
Lord
their
God,
but
not
by
the
bow
or
the
sword
or
by fighting
or
by
horses
or
horsemen.
\VS{8}Now
when
Lo-ruhamah
had been taken
from
the breast,
the woman
gave
birth
to
a
son.
\VS{9}And
the Lord
said,
Give
him
the
name
Lo-ammi;
for
you
are
not
my
people,
and
I
will
not
be
your
God.
\VS{10}But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
\VS{11}And the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together and take for themselves one head, and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Say
to
your brothers, Ammi;
and
to
your sisters, Ruhamah.
\VS{2}Take
up
the cause
against
your mother,
take
it
up,
for
she
is
not
my wife,
and
I am
not
her husband;
let
her
put
away
her loose ways
from
her face,
and
her false ways
from
between
her breasts;
\VS{3}For fear
that
I
may take away
her robe
from
her, making
her uncovered as
in
the day
of
her birth; making
her like
a waste place
and
a dry land, causing
her death through need
of water.
\VS{4}And
I
will
have
no mercy
on
her children,
for
they
are
the children
of
her loose ways.
\VS{5}For
their mother
has
been untrue; she
who
gave
them
birth
has done things
of shame,
for she said,
I
will go
after
my lovers,
who
give
me
my bread
and
my water,
my wool
and
my linen,
my oil
and
my wine.
\VS{6}For
this cause
I
will put thorns
in
her road, building
up
a wall round
her
so
that
she
may
not go
on
her way.
\VS{7}And
if
she goes
after
her
lovers
she
will
not overtake
them;
if
she
makes search
for
them
she
will
not see
them;
then
will
she
say,
I
will go
back
to
my first husband,
for
then
it
was better
for
me
than
now.
\VS{8}For
she
had
no knowledge
that
it
was
I
who gave
her
the grain
and
the wine
and
the oil, increasing
her silver
and gold which
they gave
to
the Baal.
\VS{9}So
I
will
take
away
again
my grain
in
its
time
and
my wine,
and
I
will
take
away
my wool
and
my linen
with which
her body might
have
been covered.
\VS{10}And
now
I
will
make
her shame clear
before
the eyes
of
her lovers,
and
no
one
will
take
her
out
of
my
hand.
\VS{11}And
I
will
put
an end
to
all
her joy,
her
feasts,
her
new moons,
and
her Sabbaths,
and
all
her regular meetings.
\VS{12}And
I
will
make waste
her vines
and
her fig-trees,
of
which
she
has said, These
are
the payments
which
my
lovers
have
made
to
me;
and
I
will
make
them
a waste
of trees,
and
the beasts
of
the field
will
take
them
for food.
\VS{13}And I
will give
her punishment
for
the days
of
the Baals,
to whom
she
has
been burning perfumes, when
she
made herself fair
with
her nose-rings
and
her jewels,
and went after
her lovers, giving
no thought
to
me, says
the Lord.
\VS{14}For
this
cause
I
will
make
her come
into
the
waste
land
and
will
say words
of comfort
to
her.
\VS{15}And
I
will give
her vine-gardens
from
there,
and
the valley
of Achor
for
a door
of hope;
and
she
will give
her answer
there
as
in
the
days
when
she
was
young,
and
as
in
the
time
when
she came
up
out
of
the land
of Egypt.
\VS{16}And
in
that day,
says
the Lord,
you
will
say
to
me, Ishi;
and
you
will never
again
give
me
the name
of Baali;
\VS{17}For
I
will
take
away
the names
of
the Baals
out
of
her mouth,
and never again
will she say
their names.
\VS{18}And
in
that
day
I
will
make
an agreement
for
them
with
the beasts
of
the field
and
the birds
of heaven
and
the
things
which
go low
on
the earth;
I
will put
an end
to
the bow
and
the sword
and war
in
all
the land,
and
will
make
them
take
their
rest
in peace.
\VS{19}And
I
will
take
you
as
my bride
for
ever; truly,
I
will
take
you
as
my bride
in righteousness
and
in right judging,
in love
and
in mercies.
\VS{20}I
will
take
you
as
my bride
in good faith,
and
you
will
have knowledge
of
the Lord.
\VS{21}And
it
will
be,
in that day, says
the
Lord, that I
will give an answer
to
the heavens,
and
the heavens
to
the earth;
\VS{22}And
the earth
will give
its answer
to
the grain
and
the wine
and
the oil,
and
they
will give
an answer
to Jezreel;
\VS{23}And
I
will put
her
as seed
in
the
earth,
and
I
will
have
mercy
on
her
to whom no
mercy
was given;
and
I
will say
to
those
who
were
not
my
people,
You
are
my
people,
and
they
will say,
My
God.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord
said
to
me, Give
your
love
again
to
a
woman
who
has
a
lover
and
is false
to
her
husband,
even
as
the
Lord
has
love
for
the
children
of
Israel, though
they
are
turned
to
other
gods
and
are
lovers
of grape-cakes.
\VS{2}So I got her
for myself
for
fifteen
shekels
of
silver
and
a homer
and
a
half
of
barley;
\VS{3}And
I
said
to
her,
You
are
to
be mine
for
a
long space
of
time;
you
are
not
to
be false
to
me,
and
no
other
man
is
to
have
you
for
his wife;
and
so
will
I
be
to
you.
\VS{4}For
the
children
of
Israel
will
for
a
long
time
be
without
king
and
without
ruler,
without
offerings
and
without
pillars,
and
without
ephod
or images.
\VS{5}And
after
that,
the
children
of
Israel
will
come
back
and
go
in
search
of
the
Lord
their
God
and
David
their
king;
and
they
will
come
in
fear
to
the
Lord
and
to
his mercies
in
the
days
to
come.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
children
of
Israel;
for
the
Lord
has
a
cause
against
the
people
of
this
land,
because
there
is
no good
faith
in
it,
and
no
mercy
and
no
knowledge
of
God
in
the
land.
\VS{2}There
is cursing
and
broken faith,
violent
death
and attacks on property,
men
are untrue
in married
life, houses
are
broken
into,
and there
is
blood
touching
blood.
\VS{3}Because
of
this
the
land
will
be dry,
and
everyone
living
in
it
will
be wasted
away,
with
the
beasts
of
the
field
and
the
birds
of
heaven;
even
the fishes
of
the
sea
will
be
taken
away.
\VS{4}Let
no
man go
to law
or
make protests,
for
your
people
are
like
those
who go
to law
with
a
priest.
\VS{5}You
will
not
be able
to keep
on
your feet
by
day,
and
by
night
the
prophet
will
be falling
down
with
you,
and
I
will give
your
mother
to destruction.
\VS{6}Destruction
has overtaken
my
people
because
they
have
no
knowledge;
because
you
have given
up
knowledge,
I
will give
you
up,
so
that
you
will
be
no
priest
to
me,
because
you
have
not kept
in mind
the
law
of
your
God,
I
will
not keep
your
children
in
my memory.
\VS{7}Even while
they were increasing
in
number
they were
sinning
against
me;
I
will
let
their
glory be
changed
into
shame.
\VS{8}The
sin
of
my
people
is
like
food
to
them;
and
their
desire
is
for
their wrongdoing.
\VS{9}And
the
priest
will
be
like
the
people;
I
will
give
them
punishment
for
their evil
ways,
and
the reward
of
their
acts.
\VS{10}They
will
have
food,
but
they
will
not
be
full;
they
will
be false
to
me,
but
they
will
not
be
increased,
because
they
no
longer
give thought
to
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Loose ways
and
new
wine
take
away
wisdom.
\VS{12}My
people get knowledge
from
their
tree,
and
their
rod gives
them news;
for
a false
spirit
is
the cause
of
their
wandering,
and
they
have been false
to
their
God.
\VS{13}They
make
offerings
on
the
tops
of
mountains,
burning perfumes
in high
places,
under trees
of
every sort,
because
their
shade
is
good:
and
so
your
daughters
are given
up
to
loose ways
and
your
brides
are false
to
their husbands.
\VS{14}I
will
not
give
punishment
to
your
daughters
or
your
brides
for
their evil behaviour;
for
they
make
themselves
separate
with
loose
women,
and
make
offerings
with
those
who
are used
for sex purposes
in
the worship
of
the gods:
the
people
who
have
no wisdom
will
be sent
away.
\VS{15}Do
not
you,
O
Israel,
come
into error;
do
not
you,
O
Judah,
come
to
Gilgal,
or
go
up
to Beth-aven,
or
take
an
oath,
By
the
living
Lord.
\VS{16}For
Israel
is uncontrolled,
like
a
cow which
may
not
be controlled;
now
will
the
Lord give
them food
like
a
lamb
in
a wide
place.
\VS{17}Ephraim
is
joined
to false gods; let him be.
\VS{18}Their
drink has
become bitter;
they
are completely false;
her
rulers
take pleasure
in
shame.
\VS{19}They are folded
in
the
skirts
of
the
wind;
they
will be
shamed because
of their
offerings.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give
ear
to
this,
O
priests;
give
attention,
O
Israel,
and
you,
family
of
the
king;
for
you
are
to
be
judged;
you
have
been
a deceit
at
Mizpah
and
a
net
stretched
out
on
Tabor.
\VS{2}They
have
gone
deep
in
the evil ways
of Shittim,
but
I
am
the judge
of
all.
\VS{3}I
have
knowledge
of
Ephraim,
and
Israel
is
not secret
from
me;
for
now,
O
Ephraim,
you
have
been false
to
me,
Israel
has
become
unclean.
\VS{4}Their
works
will
not
let
them
come
back
to
their
God,
for
a false
spirit
is
in
them
and
they
have
no
knowledge
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
the
pride
of
Israel gives
an
answer
to
his
face;
and
Ephraim
will
have
a
fall through
his
sins,
and
the
fall
of
Judah
will
be
the same
as theirs.
\VS{6}They
will go,
with
their
flocks
and
their
herds,
in
search
of
the
Lord,
but
they
will
not see
him;
he
has
taken
himself
out
of
their view.
\VS{7}They
have
been false
to
the
Lord;
they
have
given
birth
to
strange
children;
now
the
new
moon
will
make
them waste
with
their fields.
\VS{8}Let
the
horn be
sounded
in
Gibeah
and
in
Ramah;
give
a
loud
cry
in Beth-aven,
They are
after
you, O
Benjamin.
\VS{9}Ephraim
will
become
a
waste
in
the
day
of punishment;
I
have given
knowledge
among
the
tribes
of
Israel
of
what
is
certain.
\VS{10}The
rulers
of
Judah
are
like
those
who
take away
a landmark;
I
will
let
loose
my
wrath
on
them
like
flowing
water.
\VS{11}Ephraim
is troubled;
he
is
crushed
by
his judges,
because
he
took pleasure
in
walking
after deceit.
\VS{12}And
so
to
Ephraim
I
am
like
a wasting insect,
and
a destruction
to
the children
of
Judah.
\VS{13}When
Ephraim
saw
his
disease
and
Judah
his
wound,
then
Ephraim
went
to
Assyria
and
sent
to
the great
king;
but
he
is
not
able
to
make
you well
or
give
you help
for
your
wound.
\VS{14}For
I
will
be
to
Ephraim
as
a
lion,
and
as
a
young
lion
to
the children
of
Judah;
I,
even
I,
will
give
him wounds
and go
away;
I
will
take
him
away,
and
there
will
be
no helper.
\VS{15}I
will
go
back
to
my
place
till
they
are
made waste;
in
their
trouble
they
will
go
after
me early
and
will
make
search
for
me.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come, let
us
go
back
to
the
Lord;
for
he
has given
us
wounds
and
he
will
make
us well;
he
has given
blows
and
he
will
give help.
\VS{2}After two
days
he
will give
us
life,
and
on
the
third
day
he
will
make
us
get
up,
and
we
will
be living
before
him.
\VS{3}And let
us
have
knowledge, let
us
go
after
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord;
his
going
out
is
certain
as
the
dawn,
his decisions
go
out
like
the light;
he
will
come
to
us
like
the
rain,
like
the
spring
rain
watering
the
earth.
\VS{4}O
Ephraim,
what
am
I
to
do
to
you?
O
Judah,
what
am
I
to
do
to
you?
For
your
love
is
like
a
morning
cloud,
and
like
the
dew
which
goes
early
away.
\VS{5}So
I
have
had
it
cut
in stones;
I
gave
them teaching
by
the
words
of
my
mouth;
\VS{6}Because
my
desire
is
for mercy
and
not
offerings;
for
the
knowledge
of
God
more
than
for burned
offerings.
\VS{7}But
like
a man,
they have gone against
the
agreement;
there
they
were false
to me.
\VS{8}Gilead
is
a
town
of evil-doers, marked
with
blood.
\VS{9}And
like
a
band
of thieves
waiting
for
a
man,
so
are
the
priests watching secretly
the
way
of
those going quickly
to
Shechem,
for
they
are working
with
an
evil design.
\VS{10}In
Israel
I
have
seen
a very evil thing;
there false ways
are
seen
in
Ephraim,
Israel
is
unclean;
\VS{11}And
Judah
has
put
up disgusting images
for himself.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
my desire
was
for
the fate
of
my people
to
be changed
and
to
make
Israel well,
then
the
sin
of
Ephraim
was
made clear,
and
the evil-doing
of
Samaria;
for
their ways
are
false,
and
the
thief
comes
into
the house,
while
the
band
of outlaws
takes property
by force
in
the
streets.
\VS{2}And
they
do
not
say
to
themselves
that
I
keep
in
mind
all
their sin;
now
their
evil
acts
come
round
them
on
every
side;
they
are
before
my
face.
\VS{3}In
their sin
they
make
a
king
for
themselves,
and
rulers
in
their deceit.
\VS{4}They are
all untrue;
they are
like
a
burning
oven;
the bread-maker does
not make
up
the fire
from
the
time
when
the paste
is mixed
till
it
is leavened.
\VS{5}On
the
day
of
our
king,
the
rulers made
him ill
with
the
heat
of
wine;
his
hand
was
stretched
out
with
the
men
of pride.
\VS{6}For
they
have
made
their
hearts ready
like
an
oven,
while
they
are waiting secretly;
their wrath
is
sleeping
all
night;
in
the
morning
it
is
burning
like
a
flaming
fire.
\VS{7}They
are
all
heated
like
an
oven,
and
they put
an end
to
their
judges;
all
their
kings
have
been
made low;
not
one
among
them makes prayer
to
me.
\VS{8}Ephraim
is
mixed
with
the
peoples;
Ephraim
is
a
cake
not
turned.
\VS{9}Men
from
other lands
have
made waste
his
strength,
and
he
is
not conscious
of
it; grey
hairs
have come
on
him here
and
there,
and
he
has
no
knowledge
of
it.
\VS{10}And
the
pride
of
Israel
gives
an
answer
to
his
face;
but
for
all
this,
they
have
not
gone
back
to
the
Lord
their
God,
or
made
search
for
him.
\VS{11}And
Ephraim
is
like
a foolish
dove,
without
wisdom;
they send
out
their
cry
to
Egypt,
they
go
to
Assyria.
\VS{12}When
they
go,
my
net
will
be
stretched
out
over
them;
I
will
take
them
like
the
birds
of
heaven,
I
will give
them punishment,
I
will
take
them away
in
the
net
for
their sin.
\VS{13}May trouble
be
theirs!
for
they
have
gone
far
away
from
me;
and
destruction,
for
they
have
been sinning
against
me;
I
was ready
to
be
their saviour,
but
they
said
false words
against
me.
\VS{14}And
they
have
not made prayer
to
me
in
their
hearts,
but
they
make loud
cries
on
their
beds;
they
are cutting
themselves
for
food
and
wine,
they
are
turned
against
me.
\VS{15}Though
I
have given training
and
strength
to
their
arms,
they
have
evil designs
against
me.
\VS{16}They
have
gone
to what
is
of
no value;
they
are
like
a false
bow;
their
captains
will
come
to destruction
by
the
sword,
and
their
ruler
by
my
wrath;
for
this,
the
land
of
Egypt
will
make sport
of
them.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Put
the
horn
to
your
mouth.
He comes
like
an
eagle
against
the
house
of
the
Lord;
because
they
have gone
against
my
agreement,
they
have not kept
my
law.
\VS{2}They
will send up
to
me
a
cry
for help: We,
Israel,
have
knowledge
of
you,
O
God
of
Israel.
\VS{3}Israel
has given up
what
is
good;
his haters
will go
after
him.
\VS{4}They
have put
up kings,
but
not
by
me;
they
have
made
princes,
but
I
had
no
knowledge
of
it;
they
have
made
images
of
silver
and
gold,
so
that
they
may
be
cut
off.
\VS{5}I
will
have
nothing
to
do
with
your young ox,
O
Samaria;
my
wrath
is burning
against
them;
how
long
will
it
be
before
the children
of Israel make themselves clean?
\VS{6}The workman
made
it,
it
is
no
god;
the ox
of
Samaria
will
be
broken
into bits.
\VS{7}For
they
have been planting
the
wind,
and
their fruit
will
be
the storm;
his
grain
has
no stem,
it
will give
no
meal,
and
if
it
does,
a
strange nation
will take
it.
\VS{8}Israel
has
come
to destruction;
now
they
are
among
the
nations
like
a cup
in
which
there
is
no
pleasure.
\VS{9}For
they
have
gone
up
to
Assyria
like
an ass
going
by himself;
Ephraim
has given money
to
get
lovers.
\VS{10}But
though
they give money
to
the
nations
for help,
still
I
will send
them
in
all directions;
and
in
a short
time
they
will
be without
a
king
and
rulers.
\VS{11}Because
Ephraim
has
been increasing
altars
for
sin,
altars
have
become
a
cause
of
sin
to
him.
\VS{12}Though I put
my
law
in
writing
for
him
in
ten
thousand rules,
they are
to
him
as
a
strange thing.
\VS{13}He
gives
the
offerings
of
his lovers,
and
takes
the
flesh
for
food;
but
the
Lord
has
no
pleasure
in
them;
now
he
will
keep
in
mind
their evil-doing
and
give
them
the
punishment
of
their
sins;
they
will
go
back
to
Egypt.
\VS{14}For
Israel
has no memory
of
his Maker,
and
has
put
up
the houses
of kings;
and
Judah
has
made great
the
number
of
his walled
towns.
But
I
will
send
a
fire
on
his
towns
and
put
an end
to
his great houses.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Have
no
joy,
O
Israel,
and
do
not
be
glad
like
the
nations;
for
you
have
been untrue
to
your
God;
your desire
has
been
for
the
loose woman's reward
on
every grain-floor.
\VS{2}The grain-floor
and
the place
where
the
grapes
are crushed
will
not
give
them food; there
will
be
no
new
wine
for
them.
\VS{3}They
will
have
no resting-place
in
the Lord's
land,
but
Ephraim
will
go
back
to
Egypt,
and
they
will
take
unclean
food
in
Assyria.
\VS{4}They
will
give
no
wine
offering
to
the
Lord,
they
will
not
make
offerings ready
for
him;
their
bread
will
be
like
the
bread
of
those
in
sorrow;
all
who
take
it
will
be
unclean,
because
their
bread
will
be
only
for
their
desire,
it
will
not
come
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}What
will
you
do
on
the
day
of worship,
and
on
the
day
of
the
feast
of
the
Lord?
\VS{6}For
see,
they
are
going
away
into Assyria;
Egypt
will
get
them
together,
Memphis
will
be
their last resting-place;
their fair
silver vessels
will
be covered
over
with field plants,
and
thorns
will
come up
in
their
tents.
\VS{7}The
days
of
punishment,
the
days
of reward
are
come;
Israel
will
be
put
to shame;
the
prophet
is
foolish,
the
man
who
has
the
spirit
is
off
his head,
because
of
your
great
sin.
\VS{8}There
is
great hate
against
the
watchman
of
Ephraim,
the people
of
my
God;
as
for
the
prophet,
there
is
a net
in
all
his
ways,
and hate
in
the
house
of
his
God.
\VS{9}They
have
gone
deep
in
evil
as
in
the
days
of
Gibeah;
he
will
keep
in
mind
their wrongdoing,
he
will give
them
punishment
for
their
sins.
\VS{10}I
made
discovery
of
Israel
as
of
grapes
in
the waste land;
I
saw
your
fathers
as
the first-fruits
of
the fig-tree
in
her
early
fruit
time;
but
they
came
to
Baal-peor,
and
made
themselves holy
to
the
thing
of
shame,
and
became disgusting
like
that
to which
they
gave
their
love.
\VS{11}As
for
Ephraim, their
glory
will go
in flight
like
a
bird: there
will be no
birth
and no one with
child
and no
giving
of life.
\VS{12}Even
though
their
children
have come
to growth
I
will
take
them
away,
so
that
not
a
man
will
be
there;
for
their evil-doing
will
be complete
and
they
will
be
put
to shame
because
of
it.
\VS{13}As
I
have
seen
a beast
whose
young
have
been
taken
from
her,
so
Ephraim
will
give birth
to
children only
for
them
to
be
put
to death.
\VS{14}O
Lord,
what
will
you
give
them?
Give
them bodies
which
may not
give
birth
and
breasts without milk.
\VS{15}All
their evil-doing
is
in
Gilgal;
there
I
had
hate
for
them;
because
of
their evil-doing
I
will send
them
out
of
my
house;
they
will
no
longer
be dear
to
me;
all
their
rulers
are uncontrolled.
\VS{16}The rod
has come
on
Ephraim,
their
root
is
dry, let
them
have
no
fruit;
even
though
they
give
birth,
I
will
put
to
death
the dearest
fruit
of
their bodies.
\VS{17}My
God
will
give
them
up
because
they
did
not
give ear
to
him;
they
will
be wandering
among
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Israel
is
a branching
vine, full
of
fruit;
as
his
fruit
is
increased,
so
the
number
of
his
altars
is
increased;
as
the
land
is fair,
so
they
have
made fair
pillars.
\VS{2}Their
mind
is taken away;
now
they
will
be made
waste:
he
will
have
their
altars
broken
down,
he
will give
their
pillars
to destruction.
\VS{3}Now,
truly,
they
will
say,
We
have
no
king,
we
have
no
fear
of
the
Lord;
and
the
king,
what
is
he able
to
do
for
us?
\VS{4}Their
words
are foolish;
they
make agreements
with
false
oaths,
so punishment
will come
up
like
a poison-plant
in
a ploughed
field.
\VS{5}The
people
of
Samaria
will
be full
of
fear
because
of
the ox
of Beth-aven;
its
people
will
have
sorrow
for
it,
and
its
priests
will give cries
of grief
for
its
glory,
for
the
glory
has
gone
in flight.
\VS{6}And
they
will
take
it
to
Assyria
and
give
it
to
the great
king;
shame
will come
on
Ephraim,
and
Israel
will
be
shamed
because
of
its image.
\VS{7}As
for
Samaria,
her
king
is
cut
off,
like mist
on
the
water.
\VS{8}And
the
high
places
of Aven,
the
sin
of
Israel,
will
come
to
destruction;
thorns
and
waste plants
will
come
up
on
their
altars;
they
will
say
to
the
mountains,
Be
a
cover
over
us;
and
to
the
hills,
Come
down
on
us.
\VS{9}O
Israel,
you
have
done evil
from
the
days
of
Gibeah;
there
they
took
up
their
position,
so
that
the fighting
against
the
children
of evil
might
not
overtake
them
in
Gibeah.
\VS{10}I
will come
and give
them punishment;
and
the
peoples
will come
together
against
them
when
I give
them
the reward
of
their
two sins.
\VS{11}And
Ephraim
is
a
trained cow, taking pleasure
in crushing
the grain;
but
I
have
put
a yoke
on
her
fair
neck;
I
will
put
a horseman
on
the back
of
Ephraim;
Judah
will be working
the plough,
Jacob
will be turning
up
the earth.
\VS{12}Put
in
the
seed
of
righteousness,
get
in
your grain
in
mercy,
let
your unploughed earth
be turned
up:
for
it
is
time
to make
search
for
the
Lord,
till
he
comes
and sends
righteousness
on
you
like
rain.
\VS{13}You
have been ploughing
sin,
you
have got
in
a store
of
evil,
the
fruit
of deceit
has been
your
food:
for
you
put faith
in
your
way,
in
the
number
of
your
men
of war.
\VS{14}So
a great outcry
will
go
up
from
among
your
people,
and
all
your strong
places
will
be broken,
as
Beth-arbel
was broken
by
Shalman
in
the
day
of
war,
as
the
mother
was broken
on
the rocks
with
her
children.
\VS{15}So
will Beth-el
do
to
you
because
of
your evil-doing;
at
dawn
will
the
king
of
Israel
be
cut
off
completely.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Israel
was
a
child
he
was dear
to
me;
and
I took
my
son out
of
Egypt.
\VS{2}When
I sent
for
them,
then
they
went
away
from
me;
they
made offerings
to
the
Baals,
burning perfumes
to
images.
\VS{3}But
I
was guiding Ephraim's footsteps;
I
took
them
up
in
my
arms,
but
they
were
not conscious
that
I
was ready
to
make
them
well.
\VS{4}I
made
them
come
after
me
with
the
cords
of
a
man,
with
the bands
of
love;
I
was
to
them
as
one
who
took
the
yoke
from
off
their mouths, putting meat
before
them.
\VS{5}He
will
go
back
to
the
land
of
Egypt
and
the Assyrian
will
be
his
king,
because
they
would
not
come
back
to
me.
\VS{6}And
the
sword
will go through
his
towns, wasting
his children
and causing
destruction because
of
their evil designs.
\VS{7}My
people
are
given
up
to sinning
against
me; though
their voice goes
up
on
high,
no
one
will
be
lifting
them
up.
\VS{8}How
may
I
give
you
up, O
Ephraim?
how
may
I
be
your saviour, O
Israel?
how
may
I
make
you
like
Admah?
how
may
I do
to
you
as
I did
to Zeboim?
My
heart
is
turned
in
me,
it
is soft
with pity.
\VS{9}I
will
not
put
into effect
the heat
of
my
wrath;
I
will
not
again send
destruction
on
Ephraim;
for
I
am
God
and
not
man,
the
Holy
One
among
you;
I
will
not
put
an end
to
you.
\VS{10}They
will go
after
the
Lord;
his cry
will
be
like
that
of
a
lion;
his cry
will
be loud,
and
the
children
will
come
from
the
west, shaking
with
fear;
\VS{11}Shaking
with
fear
like
a
bird,
they
will
come
out
of
Egypt,
like
a
dove
out
of
the
land
of
Assyria:
and
I
will give
them rest
in
their
houses,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ephraim's
food
is
the wind,
and
he goes after
the east wind:
deceit
and destruction
are increasing day
by day;
they
make
an agreement
with Assyria,
and
take oil
into Egypt.
\VS{2}The Lord
has
a cause
against Judah,
and
will give punishment
to Jacob
for
his ways;
he
will give
him
the reward
of
his acts.
\VS{3}In
the body
of
his mother
he
took
his brother
by
the foot,
and
in
his strength
he
was fighting
with
God;
\VS{4}He
had
a fight
with
the angel
and overcame
him;
he made request
for grace
to
him
with weeping;
he came face
to face
with
him
in Beth-el
and there
his words came
to
him;
\VS{5}Even
the Lord,
the
God
of armies;
the Lord
is
his name.
\VS{6}So
then,
come back
to
your
God; keep
mercy
and right,
and
be waiting
at all times
on
your
God.
\VS{7}As
for Canaan,
the scales
of deceit
are
in
his hands;
he takes pleasure
in twisted ways.
\VS{8}And Ephraim said,
Now
I
have
got wealth
and
much property;
in all
my works no sin may
be seen
in
me.
\VS{9}But
I am
the Lord
your
God
from
the land
of Egypt;
I
will give
you tents
for
your living-places again
as
in
the days
of
the holy meeting.
\VS{10}My word came
to
the ears
of
the prophets
and
I gave
them visions
in
great number,
and
by
the mouths
of
the prophets
I made use
of comparisons.
\VS{11}In Gilead there
is evil.
They
are quite without value;
in Gilgal
they
make offerings
of oxen; truly
their altars
are
like masses
of stones
in
the hollows
of
a ploughed field.
\VS{12}And Jacob
went
in flight
into
the
field
of Aram,
and Israel
became
a servant
for
a wife,
and
for
a wife
he kept sheep.
\VS{13}And
by
a prophet
the Lord
made
Israel come up out
of Egypt,
and
by
a prophet
he
was
kept safe.
\VS{14}I
have
been bitterly moved
to wrath
by Ephraim;
so
that
his blood
will
be
on
him,
and
the
Lord
will make
his shame
come
back
on
him.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
the words
of
my law came
from
Ephraim,
he
was
lifted
up
in
Israel;
but
when
he
did evil
through
the
Baal,
death overtook
him.
\VS{2}And
now
their
sins
are
increased;
they
have
made
themselves
a
metal image, false gods
from
their
silver,
after
their designs,
all
of
them
the
work
of
the metal-workers;
they
say
of
them,
Let
them
give offerings,
let
men
give kisses
to
the oxen.
\VS{3}So
they
will
be
like
the
morning
cloud,
like
the
dew
which
goes
early
away,
like
the dust
of
the grain
which
the
wind
is driving
out
of
the crushing-floor,
like
smoke
going
up
from
the fireplace.
\VS{4}But
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
from
the
land
of
Egypt;
you
have
knowledge
of
no
other
God
and
there
is
no saviour
but
me.
\VS{5}I
had
knowledge
of
you
in
the waste
land where no water
was.
\VS{6}When
I gave
them food
they
were
full,
and
their
hearts
were
full
of pride,
and
they
did not keep
me
in
mind.
\VS{7}So
I
will
be
like
a
lion
to
them;
as
a cruel beast
I
will keep
watch
by
the
road;
\VS{8}I
will come face
to face
with
them
like
a
bear
whose young ones
have been taken
from
her,
and
their inmost
hearts
will
be
broken;
there
the dogs
will
make
a meal
of
them;
they
will
be wounded
by
the
beasts
of
the
field.
\VS{9}I
have sent
destruction
on
you, O
Israel;
who
will
be
your
helper?
\VS{10}Where
is
your
king,
that
he
may
be
your saviour?
and
all
your
rulers,
that
they
may
take
up
your
cause?
of
whom
you
said,
Give
me
a
king
and
rulers.
\VS{11}I
have
given
you
a
king, because
I
was
angry,
and
have
taken
him
away
in
my
wrath.
\VS{12}The wrongdoing
of
Ephraim
is shut
up; his
sin
is put
away
in
secret.
\VS{13}The
pains
of
a woman
in
childbirth
will
come
on
him:
he
is
an
unwise
son,
for
at
this
time
it
is
not right
for
him
to
keep
his
place
when
children
come
to
birth.
\VS{14}I
will give
the
price
to
make
them free
from
the
power
of
the underworld,
I
will
be
their saviour
from
death: O
death!
where
are
your pains? O underworld!
where
is
your destruction?
my
eyes
will
have no
pity.
\VS{15}Though
he gives
fruit
among
his
brothers,
an
east
wind
will
come,
the
wind
of
the
Lord
coming
up
from
the waste land,
and
his
spring
will
become
dry,
his
fountain
will
be without water:
it
will
make waste
the store
of
all
the
vessels
of
his
desire.
\VS{16}Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O Israel,
come back
to
the Lord
your
God;
for
your evil-doing
has been
the cause
of
your
fall.
\VS{2}Take
with
you words,
and
come
back
to
the
Lord;
say
to
him, Let
there
be forgiveness
for
all wrongdoing,
so
that
we
may
take
what
is good,
and
give
in payment
the fruit
of
our lips.
\VS{3}Assyria
will not
be
our salvation;
we
will not
go
on horses;
we
will not
again
say
to
the
work
of
our hands,
You
are
our gods;
for
in
you
there
is
mercy
for
the child
who
has
no father.
\VS{4}I
will
put right
their errors; freely
will
my
love
be
given
to
them,
for
my wrath
is turned
away
from
him.
\VS{5}I
will
be
as
the dew
to Israel;
he
will
put
out flowers
like
a lily,
and send
out
his roots
like Lebanon.
\VS{6}His branches
will
be stretched out,
he
will
be beautiful
as
the olive-tree
and sweet-smelling
as
Lebanon.
\VS{7}They
will
come back
and
have
rest
in
his shade;
their life
will
be
made new
like
the grain,
and they
will put out flowers
like
the vine;
his name
will
be
like
the wine
of
Lebanon.
\VS{8}As
for Ephraim, what
has
he
to do
with false gods any longer?
I
have given
an
answer
and
I
will keep watch over
him;
I am
like
a branching fir-tree,
from
me comes
your fruit.
\VS{9}He
who
is wise
will
see these things;
he
who
has good sense
will
have knowledge
of
them.
For
the ways
of
the Lord
are straight,
and
the
upright
will go
in
them,
but sinners
will
be falling
in
them.
\par }