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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
Jehovah
that
came unto
Hosea,
the
son
of
Beeri,
in
the
days
of
Uzziah,
Jotham,
Ahaz,
Hezekiah,
kings
of
Judah,
and
in
the
days
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{2}The
beginning
of
the
word
of
Jehovah
through
Hosea.
And
Jehovah
said
to
Hosea, Go,
take unto thee
a
wife
of whoredoms,
and
children
of whoredoms;
for
the
land
is entirely given
up
to whoredom,
away
from
Jehovah.
\VS{3}And
he went
and
took
Gomer
the
daughter
of Diblaim;
and she
conceived
and
bore
him
a
son.
\VS{4}And
Jehovah
said unto
him,
Call
his
name Jizreel;
for
yet
a
little,
and
I
will
visit
the
blood
of Jizreel
upon
the
house
of
Jehu,
and
will
cause
the
kingdom
of
the
house
of
Israel
to
cease.
\VS{5}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day,
that
I
will
break
the
bow
of
Israel
in
the
valley
of Jizreel.
\VS{6}And
she
conceived
again,
and
bore
a
daughter.
And
he
said unto
him,
Call
her
name
Lo-ruhamah;
for
I
will
no
more
have
mercy
upon
the
house
of
Israel,
so
that
I
should
pardon
them.
\VS{7}But
I
will
have
mercy upon
the
house
of
Judah,
and
will
save
them
by
Jehovah
their
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
I
will
not
save
them
by
bow,
or
by
sword,
or
by
battle, [or]
by
horses,
or
by
horsemen.
\VS{8}And she
weaned
Lo-ruhamah;
and she
conceived
and
bore
a
son;
\VS{9}and
he
said,
Call
his
name
Lo-ammi;
for ye
are
not
my
people,
and
I
will
not
be
for
you.
\VS{10}Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:10 }
El}God.
\VS{11}And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of Jizreel.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Say unto
your brethren Ammi;
and
to
your sisters, Ruhamah.
\VS{2}Plead
with
your mother, plead;
for
she
is
not
my wife, neither am
I
her husband:
and
let
her
put
away
her whoredoms
from
her face,
and
her adulteries
from
between
her breasts;
\VS{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 as
a dry land,
and slay
her
with thirst.
\VS{4}And
I
will
not
have mercy
upon
her children;
for
they
are
the children
of whoredoms.
\VS{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.
\VS{6}Therefore
behold,
I
will hedge
up thy way
with thorns;
and
I
will fence [her]
in
with
a wall,
that
she
shall
not
find
her paths.
\VS{7}And
she
shall
pursue
after
her
lovers,
and
shall
not overtake
them;
and
she
shall seek
them,
and
shall
not
find
them:
and
she
shall
say,
I
will go
and return
to
my first husband,
for
then
was
it better
with
me
than
now.
\VS{8}And
she
did
not know
that
I
had given
her
the corn
and
the new wine
and
the oil,
and
had multiplied
to
her
the silver
and gold, which
they employed
for Baal.
\VS{9}Therefore
will
I
return,
and
take
away
my corn
in
the
time thereof,
and
my new wine
in
its season,
and
will
withdraw
my wool
and
my flax which
should
have covered
her nakedness.
\VS{10}And
now
will
I discover
her impiety
in
the sight
of
her lovers,
and
none
shall
deliver
her
out
of
my
hand.
\VS{11}And
I
will
cause
all
her mirth
to cease:
her
feasts,
her
new moons,
and
her sabbaths!
and
all
her solemnities.
\VS{12}And
I
will
make desolate
her vine
and
her fig-tree, whereof
she hath said, These
are
my rewards
which
my
lovers
have
given
me;
and
I
will
make
them
a forest,
and
the beasts
of
the field
shall eat
them.
\VS{13}And I
will visit upon
her
the days
of
the Baals, wherein
she burned incense
to them,
and decked herself
with
her rings
and jewels,
and went after
her lovers,
and forgot
me, saith Jehovah.
\VS{14}Therefore behold,
I
will allure
her,
and
bring
her
into
the wilderness,
and
speak
to
her heart.
\VS{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.
\VS{16}And
it
shall
be
in
that day, saith Jehovah, [that] thou shalt call
me,
My husband,
and shalt call
me no
more, Baali;
\VS{17}for
I
will
take
away
the names
of
the Baals
out
of
her mouth,
and
they
shall
no more
be remembered
by
their name.
\VS{18}And
I
will
make
a covenant
for
them
in
that
day
with
the beasts
of
the field,
and
with
the fowl
of
the heavens,
and
the creeping
things
of
the ground;
and
I
will break bow
and sword
and
battle
out
of
the land;
and
I
will
make
them
to
lie
down safely.
\VS{19}And
I
will betroth thee unto
me
for
ever;
and
I
will betroth thee unto
me
in righteousness,
and
in judgment,
and
in loving-kindness,
and
in mercies;
\VS{20}and
I
will betroth thee unto
me
in faithfulness:
and thou shalt know Jehovah.
\VS{21}And
it shall come
to pass
in that day, I
will hear, saith Jehovah, I
will hear
the heavens,
and they shall hear
the earth;
\VS{22}and
the earth
shall hear
the corn,
and
the new wine,
and
the oil;
and
they
shall hear Jizreel.
\VS{23}And
I
will sow
her unto
me
in
the
land;
and
I
will
have
mercy
upon Lo-ruhamah;
and
I
will say
to Lo-ammi, Thou art
my
people;
and
they
shall say,
My
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:23 }
Elohim}God.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehovah
said unto
me, Go
again,
love
a
woman
beloved
of
a
friend,
and
an
adulteress,
according
to
the
love
of
Jehovah
for
the
children
of
Israel, though
they
turn
to
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
love raisin-cakes.
\VS{2}So I
bought her
to me
for
fifteen
silver [pieces],
and
for
a homer
of
barley,
and
a half-homer
of
barley.
\VS{3}And
I
said unto
her, Thou shalt
abide
for
me
many
days; thou shalt
not
play
the
harlot,
and thou shalt
not
be [another] man's,
and
I
will
also
be
for thee.
\VS{4}For
the
children
of
Israel
shall
abide
many
days
without
king,
and
without
prince,
and
without
sacrifice,
and
without statue,
and
without
ephod
and
teraphim.
\VS{5}Afterwards
shall
the
children
of
Israel
return,
and
seek
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
David
their
king;
and
shall
turn
with
fear
toward
Jehovah
and
toward
his
goodness,
at
the
end
of
the
days.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
the
word
of
Jehovah, ye
children
of
Israel;
for
Jehovah hath
a
controversy
with
the
inhabitants
of
the
land;
for
there
is
no
truth,
nor goodness,
nor
knowledge
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
the
land.
\VS{2}Swearing,
and
lying,
and
killing,
and
stealing,
and
committing
adultery, —
they
break
out;
and
blood toucheth
blood.
\VS{3}For
this
shall
the
land
mourn,
and
every
one
that dwelleth therein
shall
languish,
with
the
beasts
of
the
field,
and
with
the
fowl
of
the
heavens, yea,
the fishes
of
the
sea
also
shall
be
taken
away.
\VS{4}Yet
let
no
man
strive,
and
let
no
man
reprove;
for thy
people
are
as
they
that
strive
with
the
priest.
\VS{5}And thou shalt
stumble
by
day;
and
the
prophet
also
shall
stumble
with thee
by
night:
and
I
will
destroy thy
mother.
\VS{6}My
people
are
destroyed
for
lack
of
knowledge;
for thou hast
rejected
knowledge,
and
I
will
reject thee,
that thou shalt
be
no
priest
to
me;
seeing thou hast
forgotten
the
law
of thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
I
also
will
forget thy
children.
\VS{7}As
they were
multiplied,
so
they
sinned
against
me:
I
will
change
their
glory
into
shame.
\VS{8}They
eat
the
sin
of
my
people,
and
their
soul longeth
for
their
iniquity.
\VS{9}And
it
shall
be
as
the
people
so
the
priest;
and
I
will
visit
their
ways
upon
them,
and
recompense
to
them
their
doings;
\VS{10}and
they
shall
eat,
and
not
have
enough;
they
shall
commit whoredom,
and
shall
not
increase:
for
they
have
left
off taking
heed
to
Jehovah.
\VS{11}Fornication,
and
wine,
and
new
wine
take
away
the
heart.
\VS{12}My
people
ask counsel
of
their stock,
and
their
staff declareth unto
them;
for
the
spirit
of whoredoms causeth [them]
to
err,
and
they
have
gone
a whoring
from
under
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
\VS{13}they
sacrifice
upon
the
tops
of
the
mountains,
and
burn
incense
upon
the
hills,
under
oak
and
poplar
and
terebinth,
because
the
shade thereof
is
good;
therefore
your
daughters
play
the
harlot
and
your
daughters-in-law
commit
adultery.
\VS{14}I
will
not
punish
your
daughters
when
they
play
the
harlot,
nor
your
daughters-in-law
for
their
committing
adultery;
for
they
themselves
go
aside
with
harlots,
and
they
sacrifice
with
prostitutes:
and
the
people
that doth
not
understand
shall come
to ruin.
\VS{15}Though thou,
Israel,
play
the
harlot,
let
not
Judah trespass;
and
come ye
not unto
Gilgal,
neither
go
up
to Beth-aven,
nor
swear [As]
Jehovah liveth!
\VS{16}For
Israel
is refractory
as
an untractable
heifer;
now
will
Jehovah
feed
them
as
a
lamb
in
a wide [pasture].
\VS{17}—
Ephraim
is
joined
to
idols:
leave him alone.
\VS{18}Their
drink
is sour;
they give themselves
up
to whoredom;
her great men passionately
love [their]
shame.
\VS{19}The
wind hath
wrapped her
up
in
its
wings,
and
they shall be
ashamed because
of their
sacrifices.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
this, ye
priests;
and hearken, ye
house
of
Israel;
and
give
ear,
O
house
of
the
king:
for
this
judgment
is
for
you;
for ye
have
been
a
snare
at
Mizpah,
and
a
net
spread
upon
Tabor.
\VS{2}And
they
have plunged themselves
in
the corruption
of apostasy,
but
I
will
be
a chastiser
of
them
all.
\VS{3}I
know
Ephraim,
and
Israel
is
not
hid
from
me;
for
now,
Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom;
Israel
is
defiled.
\VS{4}Their
doings do
not
allow
them
to
return unto
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
for
the
spirit
of whoredoms
is
in
the
midst
of
them,
and
they
know
not
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And Israel's
pride doth
testify
to
his
face;
and
Israel
and
Ephraim
shall
fall
by
their
iniquity:
Judah
also
shall
fall
with
them.
\VS{6}They
shall go
with
their
flocks
and
with
their
herds
to
seek
Jehovah;
but
they
shall
not
find [him]:
he hath withdrawn
himself
from
them.
\VS{7}They
have
dealt
treacherously
against
Jehovah;
for
they
have
begotten
strange
children:
now
shall
the
new
moon
devour
them,
with
their allotted possessions.
\VS{8}Blow
the
horn
in
Gibeah,
the
trumpet
in
Ramah;
cry
aloud [at] Beth-aven:
behind thee, O
Benjamin!
\VS{9}Ephraim
shall
be
a
desolation
in
the
day
of
rebuke:
among
the
tribes
of
Israel
have
I
made
known
that
which
is
sure.
\VS{10}The
princes
of
Judah
are
become
like
them
that remove
the landmark:
I
will
pour
out
my
wrath
upon
them
like
water.
\VS{11}Ephraim
is
oppressed,
crushed
in
judgment,
because
in selfwill
he
walked
after
the commandment [of man].
\VS{12}And
I
will
be unto
Ephraim
as
a
moth,
and
to
the
house
of
Judah
as
rottenness.
\VS{13}When
Ephraim
saw
his
sickness,
and
Judah
his
sore,
then
went
Ephraim
to
the Assyrian,
and
sent
to
king
Jareb;
but
he
was
unable
to
heal
you,
nor hath
he
removed
your
sore.
\VS{14}For
I
will
be unto
Ephraim
as
a
lion,
and
as
a
young
lion
to
the
house
of
Judah.
I,
I
will
tear
and go
away;
I
will
carry
off,
and
there
shall
be
none
to
deliver.
\VS{15}I
will
go
away,
I
will
return
to
my
place,
till
they
acknowledge
their trespass,
and
seek
my
face:
in
their affliction
they
will
seek
me early.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come
and let
us
return unto
Jehovah:
for
he hath
torn,
and
he
will
heal
us;
he hath
smitten,
and
he
will
bind
us
up.
\VS{2}After two
days
will
he
revive
us;
on
the
third
day
he
will
raise
us
up,
and
we
shall
live
before
his
face;
\VS{3}and
we
shall
know, —
we
shall
follow
on
to
know
Jehovah:
his
going
forth
is assured
as
the
morning
dawn;
and
he
will
come unto
us
as
the
rain,
as
the
latter
rain which watereth
the
earth.
\VS{4}What
shall
I
do unto thee,
Ephraim?
What
shall
I
do unto thee,
Judah?
For
your goodness
is
as
a
morning
cloud,
and
as
the
dew
that
early passeth
away.
\VS{5}Therefore
have
I
hewed [them]
by
the
prophets;
I
have
slain
them
by
the
words
of
my
mouth:
and
my
judgment goeth
forth
as
the
light.
\VS{6}For
I
delight
in loving-kindness,
and
not
sacrifice;
and
the
knowledge
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
more
than burnt-offerings.
\VS{7}But
they
like
Adam have transgressed
the
covenant:
there have
they
dealt
treacherously against me.
\VS{8}Gilead
is
a
city
of them that
work
iniquity; it
is tracked
with
blood.
\VS{9}And
as
troops
of robbers lie
in
wait
for
a
man,
so
the company
of
priests
murder
in
the
way
of
Shechem;
yea,
they commit
lewdness.
\VS{10}In
the
house
of
Israel
have
I
seen
a horrible thing:
the whoredom
of
Ephraim
is
there;
Israel
is
defiled.
\VS{11}Also,
for thee,
Judah,
is
a
harvest
appointed,
when
I
shall
turn
again
the
captivity
of
my
people.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
I
would
heal
Israel,
then
the
iniquity
of
Ephraim
is discovered,
and
the
wickedness
of
Samaria:
for
they practise
falsehood;
and
the
thief entereth
in, [and]
the
troop
of
robbers assaileth without.
\VS{2}And
they
say
not
in
their
hearts [that]
I
remember
all
their
wickedness:
now
do
their
own
doings
encompass
them;
they
are
before
my
face.
\VS{3}They
make
the
king
glad
with
their
wickedness,
and
the
princes
with
their
lies.
\VS{4}They
all practise
adultery,
as
an
oven heated
by
the
baker:
he ceaseth
from stirring [the fire]
after
he hath
kneaded
the
dough,
until
it
be leavened.
\VS{5}In
the
day
of
our
king,
the
princes made themselves
sick
with
the
heat
of
wine:
he
stretched
out
his
hand
to scorners.
\VS{6}For
they
have applied
their
heart
like
an
oven
to
their
lying
in
wait:
their
baker sleepeth
all
the
night;
in
the
morning
it burneth
like
a
flaming
fire.
\VS{7}They
are
all
hot
as
an
oven,
and
devour
their
judges;
all
their
kings
are
fallen:
there
is
none
among
them
that calleth unto
me.
\VS{8}Ephraim,
he mixeth
himself
with
the
peoples;
Ephraim
is
a
cake
not
turned.
\VS{9}Strangers
have
devoured
his
strength,
and
he knoweth [it]
not; yea,
gray
hairs
are here
and
there upon
him,
and
he knoweth [it]
not.
\VS{10}And
the
pride
of
Israel testifieth
to
his
face;
and
they
do
not
return
to
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
nor
seek
him
for
all
this.
\VS{11}And
Ephraim
is
become
like
a silly
dove
without
understanding:
they
call
to
Egypt,
they
go
to
Assyria.
\VS{12}When
they
go,
I
will
spread
my
net
upon
them;
I
will
bring
them
down
as
the
fowl
of
the
heavens;
I
will
chastise
them,
according
as
their
assembly hath heard.
\VS{13}Woe unto
them!
for
they
have wandered
from
me;
destruction unto
them!
for
they
have
transgressed
against
me.
And
I would
redeem
them;
but
they
speak
lies
against
me.
\VS{14}And
they
cried
not unto
me
in
their
heart,
when
they howled
upon
their
beds;
they assemble
themselves
for corn
and
new
wine;
they
have
turned
aside
from
me.
\VS{15}I
have indeed
trained,
I
have
strengthened
their
arms,
but
they imagine mischief
against
me.
\VS{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.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Set
the
trumpet
to thy
mouth. [He cometh]
as
an
eagle
against
the
house
of
Jehovah,
because
they
have
transgressed
my
covenant,
and
rebelled
against
my
law.
\VS{2}They
shall
cry unto
me,
My
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, we
know thee; [we],
Israel.
\VS{3}Israel hath cast off
good:
the
enemy
shall
pursue
him.
\VS{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.
\VS{5}Thy
calf,
O
Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine
anger
is
kindled
against
them:
how
long
will
they
be incapable
of purity?
\VS{6}For
from
Israel
is
this
also: —
a workman
made
it,
and
it
is
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
for
the
calf
of
Samaria
shall
be [broken
in]
pieces.
\VS{7}For
they
have
sown
the
wind,
and
they
shall
reap
the whirlwind:
it hath
no stalk;
should
it sprout,
it
would
yield
no
meal;
if
so
be
it
yield,
strangers
shall
swallow
it
up.
\VS{8}Israel
is
swallowed
up:
now
are
they
become
among
the
nations
as
a
vessel wherein
is
no
pleasure.
\VS{9}For
they
are
gone
up [to]
Assyria [as]
a
wild ass
alone
by himself:
Ephraim hath
hired
lovers.
\VS{10}Although
they
hire among
the
nations,
now
will
I
gather
them,
and
they
shall
begin
to
be straitened under
the
burden
of
the
king
of
princes.
\VS{11}Because
Ephraim hath
multiplied
altars
to
sin,
altars
shall
be unto
him
to
sin.
\VS{12}I
have
prescribed unto
him
the manifold things
of
my
law:
they are
counted [as]
a
strange thing.
\VS{13}They
sacrifice
flesh [for]
the
sacrifices
of mine
offerings,
and
eat
it;
Jehovah hath
no
delight
in
them.
Now
will
he
remember
their
iniquity,
and
visit
their
sins:
they
shall
return
to
Egypt.
\VS{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.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Rejoice
not,
Israel, exultingly,
as
the
peoples;
for thou hast gone
a whoring
from thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, thou hast
loved harlot's
hire
upon
every corn-floor.
\VS{2}The
floor
and
the
winepress
shall
not
feed
them,
and
the
new
wine
shall
fail her.
\VS{3}They
shall
not
dwell
in Jehovah's
land;
but
Ephraim
shall
return
to
Egypt,
and
in
Assyria
shall
they
eat
that which
is
unclean.
\VS{4}They
shall
pour
out
no [offerings
of]
wine
to
Jehovah,
neither
shall
their
sacrifices
be pleasing unto
him:
they
shall
be unto
them
as
the
bread
of mourners;
all
that
eat thereof
shall
be
defiled:
for
their
bread
shall
be
for
themselves;
it
shall
not
come
into
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{5}What
will ye
do
in
the
day
of
assembly,
and
in
the
day
of
the
feast
of
Jehovah?
\VS{6}For
behold,
they
are
gone
away
because
of
destruction:
Egypt
shall
gather
them up, Moph
shall
bury
them:
their
pleasant
things
of
silver,
nettles
shall
possess
them;
thorns
shall
be
in
their
tents.
\VS{7}The
days
of visitation
are
come;
the
days
of recompence
are
come:
Israel
shall
know [it]:
the
prophet
is
a
fool,
the
inspired
man
is
mad,
because
of
the
greatness
of thine
iniquity,
and
the
great enmity.
\VS{8}Is
Ephraim
a
watchman
with
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God? [nay]
the
prophet
is
a fowler's
snare
on
all
his
ways, enmity
in
the
house
of
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{9}They
have
deeply
corrupted
themselves
as
in
the
days
of
Gibeah.
He
will
remember
their
iniquity,
he
will
visit
their
sins.
\VS{10}I
found
Israel
as
grapes
in
the
wilderness;
as
first-ripe
fruit
on
the fig-tree,
I
saw
your
fathers
at
the
beginning:
they
went
to
Baal-Peor,
and separated
themselves unto
that
shame,
and
became
abominations
like
their
lover.
\VS{11}As
for
Ephraim, their
glory
shall
fly away as
a
bird, — no
birth, no
pregnancy, no
conception!
\VS{12}For
even
should
they
bring
up
their
children,
yet
will
I
bereave
them, [that]
not
a
man [remain]:
for
woe
also
to
them
when
I
shall
have
departed
from
them!
\VS{13}Ephraim,
as
I
saw [him],
was
a
Tyre
planted
in
a beautiful place;
but
Ephraim
shall
bring
forth
his
children
to
the
slayer.
\VS{14}Give
them,
Jehovah —
what wilt thou
give? —
give
them
a
miscarrying
womb
and
dry
breasts.
\VS{15}All
their
wickedness
is
in
Gilgal;
for
there
I
hated
them:
because
of
the
wickedness
of
their
doings,
I
will
drive
them
out
of
my
house,
I
will
love
them
no
more:
all
their
princes
are
rebellious.
\VS{16}Ephraim
is
smitten:
their
root
is
dried
up,
they
shall
bear
no
fruit;
yea,
though
they
should
bring
forth,
yet
will
I
slay
the beloved [fruit]
of
their
womb.
\VS{17}My
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God hath
rejected
them,
because
they hearkened
not unto
him;
and
they
shall
be
wanderers
among
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Israel
is an unpruned
vine,
he bringeth forth
fruit unto himself: according
to
the
abundance
of
his
fruit
he hath
multiplied
altars; according
to
the goodness
of
his
land
they
have
made goodly statues.
\VS{2}Their
heart
is
divided;
now
shall
they
be
found
guilty:
he
will
break
down
their
altars,
he
will
destroy
their statues.
\VS{3}For
now
they
will
say,
We
have
no
king,
for
we
feared
not
Jehovah;
and
a
king,
what
can
he
do
for
us?
\VS{4}They
speak [mere]
words,
swearing falsely
in
making
a
covenant; therefore
shall
judgment spring
up
as hemlock
in
the
furrows
of
the
fields.
\VS{5}The
inhabitants
of
Samaria shall
fear
because
of
the
calf
of Beth-aven;
for
the
people thereof shall
mourn
over
it,
and
the
idolatrous
priests thereof shall tremble
for
it,
for
its
glory,
because
it
is
departed
from
it.
\VS{6}Yea,
it
shall
be
carried unto
Assyria [as]
a
present
for
king
Jareb:
Ephraim
shall
be
seized
with
shame,
and
Israel
shall
be
ashamed
of
his own
counsel.
\VS{7}As
for
Samaria
her
king
is
cut
off
as chips
upon
the
face
of
the
waters.
\VS{8}And
the
high
places
of Aven,
the
sin
of
Israel,
shall
be
destroyed:
the
thorn
and
the
thistle
shall
come
up
upon
their
altars;
and
they
shall
say
to
the
mountains,
Cover
us!
and
to
the
hills,
Fall
on
us!
\VS{9}From
the
days
of
Gibeah hast thou
sinned, O
Israel:
there
they
stood:
the
battle
in
Gibeah
against
the
children
of iniquity
did
not
overtake
them.
\VS{10}At
my pleasure
will
I
chastise
them;
and
the
peoples shall
be
assembled
against
them,
when
they
are
bound
for
their
two iniquities.
\VS{11}And
Ephraim
is
a
trained
heifer,
that loveth
to tread
out [the corn];
I
have
passed
over
upon
her
fair
neck:
I
will make
Ephraim
to draw;
Judah
shall plough,
Jacob
shall break
his clods.
\VS{12}Sow
to
yourselves
in
righteousness,
reap
according
to
mercy;
break
up
your fallow ground:
for
it
is
time
to
seek
Jehovah,
till
he
come
and
rain
righteousness
upon
you.
\VS{13}Ye
have ploughed
wickedness, reaped
iniquity,
eaten
the
fruit
of
lies;
for thou didst confide
in thy
way,
in
the
multitude
of thy
mighty
men.
\VS{14}And
a
tumult
shall
arise
among thy
peoples,
and
all thy
fortresses
shall
be spoiled,
as
Shalman spoiled
Beth-arbel
in
the
day
of
battle:
the
mother
was
dashed
in
pieces
with
the
children.
\VS{15}So
shall
Bethel
do unto
you
because
of
the
wickedness
of
your
wickedness:
at day-break
shall
the
king
of
Israel utterly
be
cut
off.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Israel
was
a
child,
then
I
loved
him,
and out
of
Egypt
I
called
my
son.
\VS{2}As
they
called
them,
so
they
went
from
them:
they
sacrificed unto
the
Baals,
and
burned
incense
to
graven
images.
\VS{3}And
I
it
was
that
taught
Ephraim
to walk, —
He
took
them
upon
his
arms, —
but
they
knew
not
that
I
healed
them.
\VS{4}I
drew
them
with bands
of
a
man,
with
cords
of
love;
and
I
was
to
them
as
they
that
take
off
the
yoke
on
their
jaws,
and
I gently
caused
them
to
eat.
\VS{5}He
shall
not
return
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
but
the Assyrian
shall
be
his
king;
for
they
refused
to
return [to
me];
\VS{6}and
the
sword
shall turn
about
in
his
cities,
and
shall
consume
his
bars,
and
devour [them], because
of
their own
counsels.
\VS{7}Yea,
my
people
are
bent
upon backsliding
from
me: though
they
call
them
to
the Most
High,
none
at
all exalteth [him].
\VS{8}How
shall
I
give thee
over,
Ephraim? [how]
shall
I
deliver thee
up,
Israel?
how
shall
I
make thee
as
Admah? [how]
shall
I
set thee
as Zeboim?
My
heart
is
turned
within
me,
my repentings
are
kindled
together.
\VS{9}I
will
not execute
the
fierceness
of mine
anger,
I
will
not
again
destroy
Ephraim;
for
I
am
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 11:9 }

El|strong="H0410"}God,
and
not
man, —
the
Holy
One
in
the
midst
of thee:
and
I
will
not
come
in
anger.
\VS{10}They
shall walk
after
Jehovah;
he
shall
roar
like
a
lion;
when
he
shall
roar,
then
the
children
shall hasten
from
the
west:
\VS{11}they
shall hasten
as
a
bird
out
of
Egypt,
and
as
a
dove
out
of
the
land
of
Assyria;
and
I
will cause
them
to
dwell
in
their
houses, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{12}Ephraim encompasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet walketh with
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 11:12 }
El}God, and with the holy things of truth.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ephraim feedeth
on wind,
and pursueth after
the east wind:
all day
long
he multiplieth
lies
and desolation;
and
they
make
a covenant
with Assyria,
and oil
is
carried
into Egypt.
\VS{2}Jehovah hath
also
a controversy
with Judah,
and
he
will punish Jacob according
to
his ways; according
to
his doings
will
he recompense
him.
\VS{3}He
took
his brother
by
the heel
in
the womb,
and
in
his strength
he wrestled
with
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:3 }
Elohim}God.
\VS{4}Yea,
he
wrestled
with
the Angel,
and prevailed;
he wept,
and made supplication unto
him:
he found
him
in Bethel,
and there
he spoke
with
us,
\VS{5}— even Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:5 }
Elohim}God
of hosts, — Jehovah
is
his memorial.
\VS{6}And thou, return unto thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God: keep loving-kindness
and judgment,
and wait
on thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
continually.
\VS{7}[He
is]
a merchant, balances
of deceit
are
in
his hand;
he loveth
to oppress.
\VS{8}And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless
I am become rich,
I
have found
me
out substance;
in all
my labours
they
shall find none iniquity
in
me
that
were sin.
\VS{9}But
I [that am] Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:9 }
Elohim}God
from
the land
of Egypt
will again make thee
to dwell
in tents,
as
in
the days
of
the solemn feast.
\VS{10}And
I
have spoken
to
the prophets,
and
I
have multiplied visions,
and
by means
of
the prophets
have
I used similitudes.
\VS{11}If Gilead
is iniquity, surely
they
are
but vanity:
they sacrifice bullocks
in Gilgal; yea,
their altars
are
as heaps
in
the furrows
of
the fields.
\VS{12}And Jacob fled
into
the
country
of Syria,
and Israel
served
for
a wife,
and
for
a wife
he kept [sheep].
\VS{13}And
by
a prophet Jehovah brought
Israel out
of Egypt,
and
by
a prophet
was
he
preserved.
\VS{14}Ephraim provoked [him]
to anger most bitterly;
and
his
Lord
shall
leave
his blood upon
him,
and recompense unto
him
his reproach.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Ephraim
spoke, there
was
trembling;
he
exalted
himself
in
Israel:
but
he trespassed
through
Baal,
and
he
died.
\VS{2}And
now
they
sin
more
and
more,
and
have
made
them molten
images
of
their
silver,
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.
\VS{3}Therefore
they shall
be
as
the
morning
cloud,
and
as
the
early
dew
that passeth
away,
as
the
chaff driven
with
the whirlwind
out
of
the threshing-floor,
and
as
the
smoke
out
of
the lattice.
\VS{4}Yet
I [am]
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
from
the
land
of
Egypt,
and thou hast
known
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
but
me;
and
there
is
no saviour
besides
me.
\VS{5}I
knew thee
in
the
wilderness,
in
the
land
of
drought.
\VS{6}According
to
their
pasture,
they
became
full;
they
became
full,
and
their
heart
was
exalted:
therefore
have
they
forgotten
me.
\VS{7}And
I
will
be unto
them
as
a
lion;
as
a
leopard
I
will lurk
for
them
by
the
way;
\VS{8}I
will
meet
them
as
a
bear bereaved
of
her [whelps],
and
will
rend
the covering
of
their
heart,
and
there
will
I
devour
them
like
a
lioness:
the
beast
of
the
field
shall
tear
them.
\VS{9}It
is thy
destruction, O
Israel,
that [thou art] against
me, against thy
help.
\VS{10}Where
then
is thy
king,
that
he
may
save thee
in
all thy
cities?
and thy
judges
of
whom thou saidst,
Give
me
a
king
and
princes? —
\VS{11}I
gave thee
a
king
in mine
anger,
and
took
him
away
in
my
wrath.
\VS{12}The
iniquity
of
Ephraim
is bound
up; his
sin
is laid
by
in
store.
\VS{13}The pangs
of
a woman
in travail
shall
come
upon
him:
he
is
a
son
not
wise;
for
at
the
time
of
the breaking
forth
of
children,
he
was
not
there.
\VS{14}I
will
ransom
them
from
the
power
of
Sheol.
I
will
redeem
them
from
death:
where, O
death,
are thy plagues?
where, O
Sheol,
is thy destruction? Repentance
shall
be
hid
from mine
eyes.
\VS{15}Though
he
be fruitful
among [his]
brethren,
an
east
wind
shall
come,
a
wind
of
Jehovah [that] cometh
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.
\VS{16}Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her
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Elohim}God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
for thou hast
fallen
by thine iniquity.
\VS{2}Take
with
you words,
and
turn
to
Jehovah;
say unto
him, Forgive
all
iniquity,
and receive [us]
graciously;
so
will
we
render
the calves
of
our lips.
\VS{3}Assyria
shall not save
us;
we
will not ride
upon horses:
neither
will
we
say
any more
to
the
work
of
our hands, [Thou art]
our
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Elohim}God;
because
in thee
the fatherless findeth
mercy.
\VS{4}I
will heal
their backsliding,
I
will
love
them freely;
for mine anger
is turned
away
from
him.
\VS{5}I
will
be
as
the dew unto Israel:
he shall blossom
as
the lily,
and cast forth
his roots
as Lebanon.
\VS{6}His shoots
shall spread,
and
his beauty
shall
be
as
the olive-tree,
and
his smell
as
Lebanon.
\VS{7}They shall return
and sit under
his shadow; they shall revive [as] corn,
and blossom
as
the vine:
the renown thereof shall
be
as
the wine
of
Lebanon.
\VS{8}Ephraim [shall say], What
have
I
to do any more
with idols? (I
answer [him],
and
I
will
observe
him.)
I am
like
a green fir-tree. —
From
me
is thy fruit found.
\VS{9}Who
is wise,
and
he
shall understand these things? intelligent,
and
he
shall know
them?
For
the ways
of Jehovah
are right,
and
the just
shall walk
in
them;
but
the transgressors
shall
fall therein.
\par }