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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord,
that
came
to Osee
the
son
of
Beeri,
in
the
days
of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz,
and Ezechias
kings
of Juda,
and
in
the
days
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Joas
king
of
Israel.
\VS{2}The
beginning
of
the
Lord’s
speaking
by Osse:
and
the
Lord
said
to Osee: Go,
take thee
a
wife
of fornications,
and
have
of
her
children
of fornications:
for
the
land
by fornication
shall depart
from
the
Lord.
\VS{3}So
he went,
and
took
Gomer
the
daughter
of Debelaim:
and she
conceived
and
bore
him
a
son.
\VS{4}And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
Call
his
name Jezrahel:
for
yet
a
little
while,
and
I
will
visit
the
blood
of Jezrahel
upon
the
house
of
Jehu,
and
I
will
cause
to
cease
the
kingdom
of
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
in
that
day
I
will
break
in
pieces
the
bow
of
Israel
in
the
valley
of Jezrahel.
\VS{6}And
she
conceived
again,
and
bore
a
daughter,
and
he
said
to
him:
Call
her
name,
Without
mercy:
for
I
will
not
add
any
more
to
have
mercy
on
the
house
of
Israel,
but
I
will utterly
forget
them.
\VS{7}And
I
will
have
mercy
on
the
house
of Juda,
and
I
will
save
them
by
the
Lord
their
God:
and
I
will
not
save
them
by
bow,
nor
by
sword,
nor
by
battle,
nor
by
horses,
nor
by
horsemen.
\VS{8}And she
weaned
her
that
was called Without mercy.
And she
conceived,
and
bore
a
son.
\VS{9}And
he
said:
Call
his
name,
Not
my
people:
for
you
are
not
my
people,
and
I
will
not
be
yours.
\VS{10}And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.
\VS{11}And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Say ye
to
your brethren:
You
are
my
people,
and
to
your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.
\VS{2}Judge
your mother, judge
her:
because
she
is
not
my wife,
and
I am
not
her husband.
Let
her
put
away
her fornications
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
I will make
her as
a wilderness,
and will set
her as
a land
that none can pass through,
and will kill
her
with drought.
\VS{4}And
I
will
not
have mercy
on
her children:
for
they
are
the children
of fornications.
\VS{5}For
their mother hath committed fornication, she
that conceived
them
is covered
with shame:
for she said:
I
will go
after
my lovers,
that
give
me
my bread,
and
my water,
my wool,
and
my flax,
my oil,
and
my drink.
\VS{6}Wherefore
behold
I
will hedge
up thy way
with thorns,
and
I
will
stop
it
up
with
a wall,
and
she
shall
not
find
her paths.
\VS{7}And
she
shall
follow
after
her
lovers,
and
shall
not overtake
them:
and
she
shall seek
them,
and
shall
not
find,
and
she
shall
say:
I
will go,
and return
to
my first husband,
because
it
was better
with
me
then,
than
now.
\VS{8}And
she
did
not know
that
I gave
her corn
and wine,
and oil,
and multiplied
her silver,
and gold, which
they
have used
in
the service
of Baal.
\VS{9}Therefore
will
I
return,
and
take
away
my corn
in
its season,
and
my wine
in
its season,
and
I
will
set
at liberty
my wool,
and
my flax, which covered
her disgrace.
\VS{10}And
now
I
will
lay open
her folly
in
the eyes
of
her lovers:
and
no man
shall
deliver
her
out
of
my
hand:
\VS{11}And
I
will
cause
all
her mirth
to cease,
her solemnities,
her
new moons,
her sabbaths,
and
all
her
festival
times.
\VS{12}And
I
will destroy
her vines,
and
her fig trees,
of
which
she said: These
are
my rewards,
which
my
lovers
have
given
me:
and
I
will
make
her
as
a forest,
and
the beasts
of
the field
shall devour
her.
\VS{13}And I
will visit upon
her
the days
of Baalim,
to whom
she burnt incense,
and decked herself
out
with
her earrings,
and
with
her jewels,
and went after
her lovers,
and forgot
me, saith
the Lord.
\VS{14}Therefore, behold
I
will allure
her,
and
will lead
her
into
the wilderness:
and
I
will
speak
to
her heart.
\VS{15}And
I
will give
her vinedressers
out
of
the
same place,
and
the valley
of Achor
for
an opening
of hope:
and
she
shall sing
there
according
to
the
days
of
her youth,
and
according
to
the
days
of
her coming
up
out
of
the land
of Egypt.
\VS{16}And
it
shall
be
in
that day, saith
the Lord,
That
she
shall call
me:
My husband,
and
she
shall call
me no
more Baali.
\VS{17}And
I
will
take
away
the names
of Baalim
out
of
her mouth,
and she
shall
no more remember
their name.
\VS{18}And
in
that
day
I
will
make
a covenant
with
them,
with
the beasts
of
the field,
and
with
the fowls
of
the air,
and
with
the creeping
things
of
the earth:
and
I
will destroy
the bow,
and
the sword,
and war
out
of
the land:
and
I
will
make
them sleep secure.
\VS{19}And
I
will espouse thee
to
me
for
ever:
and
I
will espouse thee
to
me
in justice,
and judgment,
and
in mercy,
and
in commiserations.
\VS{20}And
I
will espouse thee
to
me
in faith:
and thou shalt know
that
I am
the Lord.
\VS{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.
\VS{22}And
the earth
shall hear
the core,
and
the wine,
and
the oil,
and these
shall hear Jezrahel.
\VS{23}And
I
will sow
her unto
me
in
the
earth,
and
I
will
have
mercy
on
her
that
was without
mercy.
\VS{24}And
I
will say
to
that which
was
not my
people: Thou art my
people:
and
they
shall say: Thou art my God.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord
said
to
me: Go
yet
again,
and
love
a
woman
beloved
of
her
friend,
and
an
adulteress:
as
the
Lord loveth
the
children
of
Israel,
and
they
look
to strange
gods,
and
love
the husks
of
the
grapes.
\VS{2}And I
bought her
to me
for
fifteen pieces
of
silver,
and
for
a core
of
barley,
and
for
half
a core
of
barley.
\VS{3}And
I
said
to
her: Thou shalt
wait
for
me
many
days: thou shalt
not
play
the
harlot,
and thou shalt
be
no
man’s,
and
I
also
will
wait
for thee.
\VS{4}For
the
children
of
Israel
shall
sit
many
days
without
king,
and
without
prince,
and
without
sacrifice,
and
without altar,
and
without
ephod,
and
without theraphim.
\VS{5}And
after
this
the
children
of
Israel
shall
return,
and
shall
seek
the
Lord
their
God,
and
David
their
king:
and
they
shall
fear
the
Lord,
and
his
goodness
in
the
last
days.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord, ye
children
of
Israel,
for
the
Lord
shall enter
into
judgment
with
the
inhabitants
of
the
land:
for
there
is
no
truth,
and
there
is
no
mercy,
and
there
is
no
knowledge
of
God
in
the
land.
\VS{2}Cursing,
and
lying,
and
killing,
and theft,
and
adultery have overflowed,
and
blood hath
touched
blood.
\VS{3}Therefore
shall
the
land
mourn,
and
every
one
that dwelleth
in
it
shall
languish
with
the
beasts
of
the
field,
and
with
the fowls
of
the air: yea,
the fishes
of
the
sea
also
shall
be
gathered
together.
\VS{4}But
yet
let
not
any
man
judge:
and
let
not
a
man
be rebuked:
for thy
people
are
as
they
that contradict
the
priest.
\VS{5}And thou shalt
fall
today,
and
the
prophet
also
shall
fall
with thee:
in
the
night
I
have
made thy
mother
to
be silent.
\VS{6}My
people
have been silent,
because
they
had
no
knowledge:
because thou hast
rejected
knowledge,
I
will
reject thee,
that thou shalt
not
do
the office
of
priesthood
to
me:
and thou hast
forgotten
the
law
of thy
God,
I
also
will
forget thy
children.
\VS{7}According to
the multitude
of them
so have
they
sinned
against
me:
I
will
change
their
glory
into
shame.
\VS{8}They
shall
eat
the
sins
of
my
people,
and
shall
lift
up
their
souls
to
their
iniquity.
\VS{9}And
there
shall
be
like
people
like
priest:
and
I
will
visit
their
ways
upon
them,
and
I
will
repay
them
their devices.
\VS{10}And
they
shall
eat
and
shall
not
be
filled:
they
have committed fornication,
and
have
not ceased:
because
they
have forsaken
the
Lord
in
not
observing
his law.
\VS{11}Fornication,
and
wine,
and drunkenness
take
away
the
understanding.
\VS{12}My
people
have consulted
their stocks,
and
their
staff hath
declared unto
them:
for
the
spirit
of fornication hath
deceived
them,
and
they
have committed fornication
against
their
God.
\VS{13}They
offered
sacrifice
upon
the
tops
of
the
mountains,
and
burnt
incense
upon
the
hills:
under
the
oak,
and
the
poplar,
and
the turpentine tree,
because
the
shadow thereof
was
good:
therefore
shall
your
daughters
commit fornication,
and
your spouses
shall
be
adulteresses.
\VS{14}I
will
not
visit
upon
your
daughters
when
they shell
commit fornication,
and
upon
your spouses
when
they
shall
commit
adultery:
because
themselves conversed
with
harlots,
and
offered
sacrifice
with
the effeminate,
and
the
people
that doth
not
understand
shall
be beaten.
\VS{15}If thou
play
the
harlot,
O
Israel,
at least
let
not Juda offend:
and
go ye
not
into Galgal,
and
come
not
up
into Bethaven,
and
do
not
swear:
The
Lord liveth.
\VS{16}For
Israel hath gone astray
like
a wanton
heifer:
now
will
the
Lord
feed
them,
as
a
lamb
in
a spacious
place.
\VS{17}Ephraim
is
a partaker
with
idols, let him alone.
\VS{18}Their banquet
is
separated,
they
have
gone astray
by fornication:
they that should
have protected
them
have
loved
to bring
shame upon
them.
\VS{19}The
wind hath bound
them
up
in
its
wings,
and
they shall be
confounded because
of their
sacrifices.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear ye
this,
O
priests,
and hearken,
O ye
house
of
Israel,
and
give
ear,
O
house
of
the
king:
for
there
is
a
judgment
against
you,
because
you
have
been
a
snare
to
them whom
you
should
have watched
over,
and
a
net
spread
upon Thabor.
\VS{2}And
you
have turned aside victims into
the depth:
and
I
am,
the teacher
of
them
all.
\VS{3}I
know
Ephraim,
and
Israel
is
not
hid
from
me:
for
now
Ephraim hath committed fornication,
Israel
is
defiled.
\VS{4}They
will
not
set
their thoughts
to
return
to
their
God:
for
the
spirit
of fornication
is
in
the
midst
of
them,
and
they
have
not
known
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
the
pride
of
Israel
shall
answer
in
his
face:
and
Israel
and
Ephraim
shall
fall
in
their
iniquity, Juda
also
shall
fall
with
them.
\VS{6}With
their
flocks,
and
with
their
herds,
they
shall go
to
seek
the
Lord,
and
shall
not
find
him:
he
is withdrawn
from
them.
\VS{7}They
have transgressed
against
the
Lord,
for
they
have
begotten
children
that
are
strangers:
now
shall
a
month
devour
them
with
their
portions.
\VS{8}Blow ye
the cornet
in Gabaa,
the
trumpet
in Rama: howl ye
in Bethaven,
behind thy
back, O
Benjamin.
\VS{9}Ephraim
shall
be
in
desolation
in
the
day
of
rebuke:
among
the
tribes
of
Israel
I
have shewn
that
which
shall
surely
be.
\VS{10}The
princes
of Juda
are
become
as
they
that
take
up
the bound:
I
will
pour
out
my
wrath
upon
them
like
water.
\VS{11}Ephraim
is under oppression,
and broken
in
judgment:
because
he
began
to
go
after filthiness.
\VS{12}And
I
will
be
like
a
moth
to
Ephraim:
and
like
rottenness
to
the
house
of Juda.
\VS{13}And
Ephraim
saw
his
sickness,
and Juda
his band:
and
Ephraim
went
to
the Assyrian,
and
sent
to
the avenging
king:
and
he
shall
not
be
able
to
heal
you,
neither
shall
he
be
able
to
take
off
the band
from
you.
\VS{14}For
I
will
be
like
a lioness
to
Ephraim,
and
like
a
lion’s whelp
to
the
house
of Juda:
I,
I
will catch,
and go:
I
will
take
away,
and
there
is
none
that
can
rescue.
\VS{15}I
will
go
and
return
to
my
place:
until
you
are consumed,
and
seek
my
face.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
their affliction
they
will rise early
to
me:
Come,
and let
us
return
to
the
Lord:
\VS{2}For
he hath
taken
us,
and
he
will heal
us:
he
will strike,
and
he
will cure
us.
\VS{3}He
will revive
us
after two days:
on
the third
day
he
will raise
us
up,
and
we
shall live
in
his sight.
We
shall
know,
and
we
shall
follow
on,
that
we
may
know
the
Lord.
His
going
forth
is
prepared
as
the
morning light,
and
he
will
come
to
us
as
the early
and
the
latter
rain
to
the
earth.
\VS{4}What
shall
I
do
to thee,
O
Ephraim?
what
shall
I
do
to thee,
O Juda?
your mercy
is
as
a
morning
cloud,
and
as
the
dew
that goeth
away
in
the
morning.
\VS{5}For
this
reason
have
I
hewed
them
by
the
prophets,
I
have
slain
them
by
the
words
of
my
mouth:
and thy
judgments
shall
go
forth
as
the
light.
\VS{6}For
I
desired mercy,
and
not
sacrifice:
and
the
knowledge
of
God
more
than holocausts.
\VS{7}But
they,
like
Adam, have transgressed
the
covenant,
there have
they
dealt
treacherously against me.
\VS{8}Galaad
is
a
city
of
workers
of idols, supplanted
with
blood.
\VS{9}And
like
the jaws
of
highway robbers,
they conspire
with
the
priests
who
murder
in
the
way
those
that pass
out Sichem:
for
they
have wrought
wickedness.
\VS{10}I
have
seen
a horrible thing
in
the
house
of
Israel:
the fornications
of
Ephraim
there:
Israel
is
defiled.
\VS{11}And thou
also, O Juda,
set thee
a
harvest,
when
I
shall
bring
back
captivity
of
my
people.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
I
would
have
healed
Israel,
the
iniquity
of
Ephraim
was discovered,
and
the
wickedness
of
Samaria,
for
they
have
committed
falsehood,
and
the
thief
is
come
in
to steal,
the robber
is without.
\VS{2}And lest
they
may
say
in
their
hearts,
that
I
remember
all
their
wickedness:
their
own devices
now
have beset
them
about,
they
have
been
done
before
my
face.
\VS{3}They
have
made
the
king
glad
with
their
wickedness:
and
the
princes
with
their
lies.
\VS{4}They are
all
adulterers,
like
an
oven heated
by
the
baker:
the city
rested
a little
from
the mingling
of
the leaven,
till
the
whole
was leavened.
\VS{5}The
day
of
our
king,
the
princes began
to
be mad
with
wine:
he
stretched
out
his
hand
with scorners.
\VS{6}Because
they
have applied
their
heart
like
an
oven,
when
he laid snares
for
them:
he
slept
all
the
night baking
them,
in
the
morning
he
himself
was heated
as
a
flaming
fire.
\VS{7}They
were
all
heated
like
an
oven,
and
have
devoured
their
judges:
all
their
kings
have
fallen:
there
is
none amongst
them
that calleth unto
me.
\VS{8}Ephraim
himself
is
mixed among
the
nations:
Ephraim
is
become
as
bread baked under
the ashes,
that
is
not
turned.
\VS{9}Strangers
have
devoured
his
strength,
and
he
knew
it
not: yea, grey
hairs
also
are spread
about upon
him,
and
he
is ignorant
of
it.
\VS{10}And
the
pride
of
Israel
shall
be humbled
before
his
face:
and
they
have
not
returned
to
the
Lord
their
God,
nor
have
they
sought
him
in
all
these.
\VS{11}And
Ephraim
is
become
as
a
dove
that
is decoyed,
not
having
a
heart:
they
called
upon
Egypt,
they
went
to
the Assyrians.
\VS{12}And
when
they
shall
go,
I
will
spread
my
net
upon
them:
I
will
bring
them
down
as
the
fowl
of
the air,
I
will strike
them
as
their
congregation hath heard.
\VS{13}Woe
to
them,
for
they
have departed
from
me:
they shall
be wasted
because
they
have
transgressed
against
me:
and
I
redeemed
them:
and
they
have
spoken
lies
against
me.
\VS{14}And
they
have
not
cried
to
me
with
their
heart,
but
they howled
in
their
beds:
they
have
thought
upon wheat
and
wine,
they
are
departed
from
me.
\VS{15}And
I
have
chastised
them,
and
strengthened
their
arms:
and
they
have imagined
evil
against
me.
\VS{16}They
returned,
that
they might
be
without yoke:
they
became
like
a
deceitful
bow:
their
princes
shall
fall
by
the
sword,
for
the
rage
of
their
tongue.
This
is
their
derision
in
the
land
of
Egypt.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
there
be
a
trumpet
in thy throat
like
an
eagle
upon
the
house
of
the
Lord:
because
they
have
transgressed
my
covenant,
and
have
violated
my
law.
\VS{2}They
shall
call upon
me:
O
my
God, we,
Israel,
know thee.
\VS{3}Israel hath cast off
the thing
that
is
good,
the
enemy
shall
pursue
him.
\VS{4}They
have
reigned,
but
not
by
me:
they
have
been
princes,
and
I
knew
not:
of
their
silver,
and
their
gold
they
have
made
idols
to
themselves,
that
they
might
perish.
\VS{5}Thy
calf,
O
Samaria,
is cast off,
my
wrath
is
kindled
against
them.
How
long
will
they
be incapable
of being cleansed?
\VS{6}For
itself
also
is
the invention
of
Israel:
a workman
made
it,
and
it
is
no
god:
for
the
calf
of
Samaria
shall
be
turned
to spiders’ webs.
\VS{7}For
they
shall
sow
wind,
and
reap
a whirlwind,
there
is
no
standing stalk
in
it,
the bud
shall
yield
no
meal;
and
if
it
should
yield,
strangers
shall eat
it.
\VS{8}Israel
is
swallowed
up:
now
is
he
become
among
the
nations
like
an unclean
vessel.
\VS{9}For
they
are
gone
up
to
Assyria,
a
wild ass
alone
by himself:
Ephraim hath given gifts
to
his
lovers.
\VS{10}But
even
though
they
shall
have
hired
the
nations,
now
will
I
gather
them
together:
and
they
shall rest
a
while
from
the
burden
of
the
king,
and
the
princes.
\VS{11}Because
Ephraim hath
made
many
altars
to
sin:
altars
are
become
to
him unto
sin.
\VS{12}I
shall
write
to
him
my manifold
laws, which
have
been
accounted
as
foreign.
\VS{13}They
shall
offer victims,
they
shall
sacrifice
flesh,
and
shall
eat
it,
and
the
Lord
will
not
receive
them:
now
will
he
remember
their
iniquity,
and
will
visit
their
sins:
they
shall
return
to
Egypt.
\VS{14}And
Israel hath
forgotten
his Maker,
and hath
built
temples:
and Juda hath
built
many fenced
cities:
and
I
will
send
a
fire
upon
his
cities,
and
it
shall
devour
the houses thereof.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Rejoice
not,
O
Israel:
rejoice
not
as
the
nations
do:
for thou hast
committed fornication
against thy
God, thou hast
loved
a reward
upon
every cornfloor.
\VS{2}The
floor
and
the
winepress
shall
not
feed
them,
and
the
wine
shall
deceive
them.
\VS{3}They
shall
not
dwell
in
the
Lord’s
land:
Ephraim
is
returned
to
Egypt,
and hath
eaten
unclean
things
among
the Assyrians.
\VS{4}They
shall
not
offer
wine
to
the
Lord,
neither
shall
they
please
him:
their
sacrifices
shall
be
like
the
bread
of mourners:
all
that
shall
eat
it
shall
be
defiled:
for
their
bread
is
life
for
their
soul,
it
shall
not
enter
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}What
will
you
do
in
the solemn
day,
in
the
day
of
the
feast
of
the
Lord?
\VS{6}For
behold
they
are
gone
because
of
destruction:
Egypt
shall
gather
them
together,
Memphis
shall
bury
them:
nettles
shall
inherit
their beloved
silver,
the bur
shall
be
in
their tabernacles.
\VS{7}The
days
of visitation
are
come,
the
days
of repaying
are
come:
know ye, O
Israel,
that
the
prophet
was
foolish,
the spiritual
man
was
mad,
for
the
multitude
of thy
iniquity,
and
the
multitude
of thy madness.
\VS{8}The
watchman
of
Ephraim
was
with
my
God:
the
prophet
is become
a
snare
of ruin
upon
all
his
ways, madness
is
in
the
house
of
his
God.
\VS{9}They
have
sinned
deeply,
as
in
the
days
of Gabaa:
he
will
remember
their
iniquity,
and
will
visit
their
sin.
\VS{10}I
found
Israel
like
grapes
in
the
desert,
I
saw
their
fathers
like
the firstfruits
of
the
fig
tree
in
the top thereof:
but
they
went
in
to Beelphegor,
and alienated
themselves
to
that confusion,
and
became
abominable,
as
those
things
were, which
they
loved.
\VS{11}As
for
Ephraim, their
glory hath flown away
like
a
bird from
the
birth,
and from
the
womb,
and from
the
conception.
\VS{12}And
though
they
should
bring
up
their
children,
I
will
make
them without
children among
men:
yea,
and
woe
to
them,
when
I
shall
depart
from
them.
\VS{13}Ephraim,
as
I
saw,
was
a
Tyre founded
in beauty:
and
Ephraim
shall
bring
out
his
children
to
the
murderer.
\VS{14}Give
them,
O
Lord.
What wilt thou
give
them?
Give
them
a
womb without
children,
and
dry
breasts.
\VS{15}All
their
wickedness
is
in Galgal,
for
there
I
hated
them:
for
the
wickedness
of
their devices
I
will cast
them forth
out
of
my
house:
I
will
love
them
no
more,
all
their
princes
are revolters.
\VS{16}Ephraim
is
struck,
their
root
is
dried
up,
they
shall
yield
no
fruit.
And
if
they
should
have issue,
I
will
slay
the best beloved
fruit
of
their
womb.
\VS{17}My
God
will cast
them
away,
because
they hearkened
not
to
him:
and
they
shall
be
wanderers
among
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Israel
a
vine full
of branches,
the
fruit
is agreeable
to
it: according
to
the
multitude
of
his
fruit
he hath
multiplied
altars, according
to
the
plenty
of
his
land
he hath abounded
with idols.
\VS{2}Their
heart
is
divided:
now
they
shall perish:
he
shall
break
down
their idols,
he
shall
destroy
their
altars.
\VS{3}For
now
they
shall
say:
We
have
no
king:
because
we
fear
not
the
Lord:
and
what
shall
a
king
do
to
us?
\VS{4}You
speak
words
of
an unprofitable vision,
and
you
shall
make
a
covenant:
and
judgment
shall spring
up
as
bitterness
in
the
furrows
of
the
field.
\VS{5}The
inhabitants
of
Samaria
have worshipped
the
king
of Bethaven:
for
the
people thereof
have
mourned
over
it,
and
the wardens
of
its temple
that
rejoiced
over
it
in
its
glory
because
it
is
departed
from
it.
\VS{6}For
itself
also
is
carried
into
Assyria,
a
present
to
the avenging
king:
shame
shall fall upon
Ephraim,
and
Israel
shall
be
confounded
in
his own
will.
\VS{7}Samaria hath made
her
king
to pass
as froth
upon
the
face
of
the
water.
\VS{8}And
the
high
places
of
the
idol,
the
sin
of
Israel
shall
be
destroyed:
the bur
and
the
thistle
shall
grow
up
over
their
altars:
and
they
shall
say
to
the
mountains:
Cover
us;
and
to
the
hills:
Fall
upon
us.
\VS{9}From
the
days
of Gabaa,
Israel hath
sinned,
there
they
stood:
the
battle
in Gabaa
against
the
children
of iniquity
shall
not
overtake
them.
\VS{10}According
to
my
desire
I
will
chastise
them:
and
the
nations shall
be
gathered
together
against
them,
when
they shall
be
chastised
for
their
two iniquities.
\VS{11}Ephraim
is
a
heifer
taught
to
love
to tread
out corn,
but
I
passed
over
upon
the beauty
of
her
neck:
I
will
ride
upon
Ephraim, Juda
shall plough,
Jacob
shall break
the furrows
for
himself.
\VS{12}Sow
for
yourselves
in
justice,
and
reap
in
the
mouth
of
mercy,
break
up
your fallow ground:
but
the
time
to
seek
the
Lord
is,
when
he
shall
come
that
shall
teach
you
justice.
\VS{13}You
have ploughed
wickedness,
you
have reaped
iniquity,
you
have
eaten
the
fruit
of lying:
because thou hast
trusted
in thy
ways,
in
the
multitude
of thy
strong
ones.
\VS{14}A
tumult
shall
arise
among thy
people:
and
all thy
fortresses
shall
be
destroyed
as Salmana
was
destroyed,
by
the house
of
him
that judged Baal
in
the
day
of
battle,
the
mother
being
dashed
in
pieces
upon
her
children.
\VS{15}So hath
Bethel
done
to
you,
because
of
the
evil
of
your iniquities.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}As
the morning passeth,
so hath
the king
of
Israel
Israel
was
a
child,
and
I
loved
him:
and
I
called
my
son out
of
Egypt.
\VS{2}As
they
called
them,
they
went
away
from
before
their
face:
they
offered victims
to Baalim,
and
sacrificed
to
idols.
\VS{3}And
I
was
like
a foster father
to
Ephraim,
I
carried
them
in
my
arms:
and
they
knew
not
that
I
healed
them.
\VS{4}I
will
draw
them
with
the
cords
of Adam,
with
the bands
of
love:
and
I
will
be
to
them
as
one
that taketh
off
the
yoke
on
their
jaws:
and
I put
his meat
to
him
that
he might
eat.
\VS{5}He
shall
not
return
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
but
the Assyrian
shall
be
his
king:
because
they
would
not
be
converted.
\VS{6}The
sword hath begun
in
his
cities,
and
it
shall
consume
his chosen men,
and
shall
devour
their heads.
\VS{7}And
my
people
shall
long
for
my return:
but
a yoke
shall
be put
upon
them
together, which
shall
not
be taken
off.
\VS{8}How
shall
I deal
with thee, O
Ephraim,
shall
I protect thee, O
Israel?
how
shall
I
make thee
as Adama,
shall
I
set thee
as Seboim?
my
heart
is
turned
within
me,
my repentance
is
stirred
up.
\VS{9}I
will
not execute
the
fierceness
of
my
wrath:
I
will
not
return
to
destroy
Ephraim:
because
I
am
God,
and
not
man:
the
holy
one
in
the
midst
of thee,
and
I
will
not
enter
into
the
city.
\VS{10}They
shall walk
after
the
Lord,
he
shall
roar
as
a
lion:
because
he
shall
roar,
and
the
children
of
the
sea
shall
fear.
\VS{11}And
they
shall fly
away
like
a
bird
out
of
Egypt,
and
like
a
dove
out
of
the
land
of
the Assyrians:
and
I
will
place
them
in
their own
houses, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ephraim feedeth
on
the wind,
and followeth
the burning heat:
all
the day
long
he multiplied
lies
and desolation:
and
he hath
made
a covenant
with
the Assyrians,
and
carried oil
into Egypt.
\VS{2}Therefore
there
is
a judgment
of
the Lord
with Juda,
and
a visitation
for Jacob:
he
will render
to
him according
to
his ways,
and according
to
his devices.
\VS{3}In
the womb
he supplanted
his brother:
and
by
his strength
he
had success
with
an angel.
\VS{4}And
he prevailed
over
the angel,
and
was strengthened:
he wept,
and made supplication
to
him:
he found
him
in Bethel,
and there
he spoke
with
us.
\VS{5}Even
the Lord
the
God
of hosts,
the Lord
is
his memorial.
\VS{6}Therefore turn thou
to thy
God: keep
mercy
and judgment,
and hope
in thy
God always.
\VS{7}He
is
like Chanaan,
there
is
a deceitful balance
in
his hand,
he hath loved oppression.
\VS{8}And Ephraim said: But yet
I am become rich,
I
have found
me an idol: all
my labours
shall not find
me
the iniquity
that
I
have committed.
\VS{9}And
I
that am
the Lord thy
God
from
the land
of Egypt,
will
yet cause thee
to dwell
in tabernacles,
as
in
the days
of
the feast.
\VS{10}And
I
have spoken
by
the prophets,
and
I
have multiplied visions,
and
I
have used similitudes
by
the ministry
of
the prophets.
\VS{11}If Galaad
be
an idol,
then
in vain
were
they
in Galgal offering sacrifices
with bullocks:
for
their altars also
are
as heaps
in
the furrows
of
the field.
\VS{12}Jacob fled
into
the
country
of Syria,
and Israel
served
for
a wife,
and
was
a keeper
for
a wife.
\VS{13}But
the Lord
by
a prophet brought
Israel out
of Egypt:
and
he
was
preserved
by
a prophet.
\VS{14}Ephraim hath provoked
me
to wrath
with
his bitterness,
and
his blood
shall
come upon
him,
and
his
Lord
will render
his reproach unto
him.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Ephraim
spoke,
a horror seized
Israel:
and
he sinned
in
Baal
and
died.
\VS{2}And
now
they
have
sinned
more
and
more:
and
they
have
made
to
themselves
a molten
thing
of
their
silver
as
the likeness
of
idols:
the
whole
is
the
work
of
craftsmen:
to
these
that
say:
Sacrifice
men, ye
that adore
calves.
\VS{3}Therefore
they shall
be
as
a
morning
aloud,
and
as
the
early
dew
that passeth
away,
as
the dust
that
is driven
with
a whirlwind
out
of
the
floor,
and
as
the
smoke
out
of
the
chimney.
\VS{4}But
I
am
the
Lord thy
God
from
the
land
of
Egypt:
and thou shalt
know
no
God
but
me,
and
there
is
no saviour beside
me.
\VS{5}I
knew thee
in
the
desert,
in
the
land
of
the
wilderness.
\VS{6}According
to
their pastures
they
were
filled,
and
were
made
full:
and
they
lifted
up
their
heart,
and
have
forgotten
me.
\VS{7}And
I
will
be
to
them
as
a lioness,
as
a
leopard
in
the
way
of
the Assyrians.
\VS{8}I
will
meet
them
as
a
bear
that
is
robbed
of
her whelps,
and
I
will
rend
the inner parts
of
their liver:
and
I
will
devour
them
there
as
a lion,
the
beast
of
the
field
shall
tear
them.
\VS{9}Destruction
is thy own, O
Israel: thy
help
is only
in
me.
\VS{10}Where
is thy
king?
now especially
let
him
save thee
in
all thy
cities:
and thy
judges,
of
whom thou saidst:
Give
me
kings
and
princes.
\VS{11}I
will
give thee
a
king
in
my
wrath,
and
will
take
him
away
in
my indignation.
\VS{12}The
iniquity
of
Ephraim
is bound
up, his
sin
is
hidden.
\VS{13}The sorrows
of
a woman
in labour snail
come
upon
him,
he
is
an
unwise
son:
for
now
he
shall
not
stand
in
the breach
of
the
children.
\VS{14}I
will
deliver
them
out
of
the
hand
of
death.
I
will
redeem
them
from
death: O
death,
I
will
be thy
death; O hell,
I
will
be thy bite: comfort
is
hidden
from
my
eyes.
\VS{15}Because
he
shall
make
a separation
between
brothers:
the
Lord
will
bring
a burning
wind
that
shall
rise
from
the
desert,
and
it
shall
dry
up
his
springs,
and
shall
make
his
fountain desolate,
and
he
shall
carry
off
the
treasure
of
every
desirable
vessel.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
Samaria
perish,
because
she hath stirred
up
her
God
to bitterness: let
them
perish
by
the
sword, let
their
little
ones
be
dashed,
and let
the
women
with
child
be
ripped
up.
\VS{2}Return,
O
Israel,
to
the
Lord thy
God:
for thou hast fallen
down
by thy
iniquity.
\VS{3}Take
with
you
words,
and
return
to
the
Lord,
and
say
to
him:
Take
away
all
iniquity,
and
receive
the
good:
and
we
will
render
the calves
of
our
lips.
\VS{4}Assyria
shall
not
save
us,
we
will
not
ride
upon
horses,
neither
will
we
say
any
more:
The
works
of
our
hands
are
our
gods,
for thou wilt
have
mercy
on
the
fatherless
that
is
in thee.
\VS{5}I
will
heal
their breaches,
I
will
love
them
freely:
for
my
wrath
is
turned
away
from
them.
\VS{6}I
will
be
as
the
dew,
Israel
shall spring
as
the
lily,
and
his
root
shall
shoot forth
as
that
of Libanus.
\VS{7}His branches shall spread,
and
his
glory shall
be
as
the
olive
tree:
and
his smell
as
that
of Libanus.
\VS{8}They
shall
be
converted
that
sit
under
his
shadow: they
shall
live
upon wheat,
and they
shall blossom
as
a
vine:
his memorial
shall
be
as
the
wine
of Libanus.
\VS{9}Ephraim
shall say,
What
have
I
to
do
any
more
with
idols?
I
will hear
him,
and
I
will make
him
flourish
like
a
green
fir tree:
from
me
is thy
fruit
found.
\VS{10}Who
is
wise,
and
he
shall
understand
these
things?
prudent,
and
he
shall
know
these
things?
for
the
ways
of
the
Lord
are
right,
and
the
just
shall
walk
in
them:
but
the
transgressors
shall
fall
in
them.
\par }