Hosea:1:2-2
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The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea .
And the Lord said to Osee ,
Go ,
take to thyself a wife of fornication ,
and children of fornication :
for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord .
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So he went and took Gomer ,
daughter of Debelaim ;
and she conceived ,
and bore him a son .
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And the Lord said to him ,
Call his name Jezrael ;
for yet a little while ,
and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda ,
and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel .
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And it shall be ,
in that day ,
that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael .
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And she conceived again ,
and bore a daughter .
And he said to him ,
Call her name ,
Unpitied :
for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel ,
but will surely set myself in array against them .
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But I will have mercy on the house of Juda ,
and will save them by the Lord their God ,
and will not save them with bow ,
nor with sword ,
nor by war ,
nor by horses ,
nor by horsemen .
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And she weaned Unpitied ;
and she conceived again ,
and bore a son .
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And he said ,
Call his name ,
Not my people :
for ye are not my people ,
and I am not your God .
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Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea ,
which shall not be measured nor numbered : (
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Ro strkjv @
9:26 (:
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and it shall come to pass ,
that in the place where it was said to them ,
Ye are not my people ,
even they shall be called the sons of the living God .
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And the children of Juda shall be gathered ,
and the children of Israel together ,
and shall appoint themselves one head ,
and shall come up out of the land :
for great shall be the day of Jezrael .
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Israel is a vine with goodly branches ,
her fruit is abundant :
according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied her altars ;
according to the wealth of his land ,
he has set up pillars .
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They have divided their hearts ;
now shall they be utterly destroyed :
he shall dig down their altars ,
their pillars shall mourn .
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Because now they shall say ,
We have no king ,
because we feared not the Lord :
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and what should a king do for us ,
speaking false professions as his words ?
he will make a covenant :
judgement shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field .
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The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On ;
for the people of it mourned for it :
and as they provoked him ,
they shall rejoice at his glory ,
because he has departed from (
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Gr .
him ,
or it ,
i .
e .,
the people (:
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them .
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And having bound it for the Assyrians ,
they carried it away as presents to king Jarim :
Ephraim shall receive a gift ,
and Israel shall be ashamed (
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Lit .
in (:
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of his counsel .
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Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water .
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And the altars of On ,
the sins of Israel ,
shall be taken away :
thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars ;
and they shall say to the mountains ,
Cover us ;
and to the hills ,
Fall on us .
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From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned :
there they stood :
war waged against the children of iniquity
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to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill ,
the nations shall be gathered against them ,
when they are chastened for their two sins ,
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Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory ,
but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck :
I will mount Ephraim ;
I will pass over Juda in silence ;
Jacob shall prevail against him .
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Sow to yourselves for righteousness ,
gather in for the fruit of life :
light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge ;
seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you .
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Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence ,
and reaped the sins of it ?
ye have eaten false fruit ;
for thou has trusted in thy sins ,
in the abundance of thy power .
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Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people ,
and all thy strong places shall be ruined :
as a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam ,
in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children ,
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thus will I do to you ,
O house of Israel ,
because of the unrighteousness of your sins .
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Early in the morning were they cast off ,
the king of Israel has been cast off :
for Israel is a child ,
and I loved him ,
and (
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Mt strkjv @
2:15 (:
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out of Egypt have I called his children .
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As I called them ,
so they departed from my presence :
they sacrificed to Baalim ,
and burnt incense to graven images .
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Yet I (
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See Pr strkjv @
20:11 (:
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bound the feet of Ephraim ,
I took him on my arm ;
but they knew not that I healed them .
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When men were destroyed ,
I drew them with the bands of my love :
and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek :
and I will have respect to him ,
I will prevail with him .
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Ephraim dwelt in Egypt ;
and as for the Assyrian ,
he was his king ,
because he would not return .
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And in his cities he (
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Or ,
fell by the sword ;
Lit .
was weak (:
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prevailed not with the sword ,
and he ceased to war with his hands :
and they shall eat of the fruit of their own devices :
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and his people shall cleave fondly to their habitation ;
but God shall be angry with his precious things ,
and shall not at all exalt him .
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How shall I deal with thee ,
Ephraim ?
how shall I protect thee ,
Israel ?
what shall I do with thee ? (
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Or ,
shall I ,
etc .(:
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I will make thee as Adama ,
and as Seboim ;
my heart is turned Or ,
in the same person ,
sc .
myself at once ,
my repentance is powerfully excited .
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I will not act according to the fury of my wrath ,
I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed :
for I am God ,
and not man ;
the Holy One within thee :
and I will not enter into the city .
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I will go after the Lord :
he shall utter his voice as a lion :
for he shall roar ,
and the children of the waters shall be amazed .
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They shall be amazed and fly as a bird out of Egypt ,
and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians :
and I will restore them to their houses ,
saith the Lord .
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Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood ,
and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness :
but now God knows them ,
and they shall be called God ’
s holy people .
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But Ephraim is an evil spirit ,
he has chased the east wind all the day :
he has multiplied empty and vain things ,
and made a covenant with the Assyrians ,
and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt .
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And the Lord has a controversy with Juda ,
in order to punish Jacob :
according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him .
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb ,
and in his labours he had power with God .
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And he prevailed with the angel and was strong :
they wept ,
and intreated me :
they found me in the house of On ,
and there a word was spoken to them .
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But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial .
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Thou therefore shalt return to thy God :
keep thou mercy and judgement ,
and draw nigh to thy God continually .
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As for Chanaan ,
in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness :
he has loved to tyrannize .
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And Ephraim said ,
Nevertheless I am rich ,
I have found refreshment to myself .
None of his labours shall be found available to him ,
by reason of the sins which he has committed .
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But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt :
I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles ,
according to the days of the feast .
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And I will speak to the prophets ,
and I have multiplied visions ,
and by the means of the prophets I was represented .
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And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria ,
and Israel served for a wife ,
and waited for a wife .
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And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet ,
and by a prophet was he preserved .
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Ephraim was angry and (
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Gr .
excited himself to anger (:
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excited ,
therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him ,
and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach .
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According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel ;
and he established them for Baal ,
and died .
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And now they have sinned increasingly ,
and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver ,
according to the fashion of idols ,
the work of artificers accomplished for them :
they say ,
Sacrifice men ,
for the calves have come to an end .
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Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud ,
and as the early dew that passes away ,
as chaff blown away from the threshing-floor ,
and as a (
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Alex .
smoke out of the chimney (:
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vapor from tears .
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But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven ,
and creates the earth ,
whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven :
but I shewed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them :
and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt ,
and thou shalt know no God but me ;
and there is no Saviour beside me .
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I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness ,
in an uninhabited land .
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According to their pastures ,
so they were completely filled ;
and their hearts were exalted ;
therefore they forgot me .
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And I will be to them as a panther ,
and as a leopard .
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I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians ,
as a she-bear (
note :)
Or ,
perplexed (:
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excited ,
and I will rend the caul of their heart ,
and the lions ’
whelps of the thicket shall devour them there ;
the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces .
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O Israel ,
who will aid thee in thy destruction ?
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Where is this thy king ?
let him even save thee in all thy cities :
let him judge thee ,
of whom thou saidst ,
Give me a king and a prince .
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And I gave thee a king in mine anger ,
and kept him back in my wrath .
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Ephraim has framed a (
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Or ,
bundle of iniquity (:
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conspiracy of unrighteousness ,
his sin is hidden .
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Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him :
he is thy wise son ,
because he shall not stay in the destruction of thy children .
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I will deliver them out of the power of Hades ,
and will redeem them from death :
where is thy (
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Or ,
cause (:
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penalty ,
O death ?
1 Co strkjv @
15:55 O Hades ,
where is thy sting ?
comfort is hidden from mine eyes .
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Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren ,
the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert ,
and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains :
he shall dry up his land ,
and spoil all his precious vessels .
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Samaria shall be utterly destroyed :
for she has resisted her God ;
they shall fall by the sword ,
and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground ,
and their women and child ripped up .
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Return ,
O Israel ,
to the Lord thy God ;
for the people have fallen through thine iniquities .
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Take with you words ,
and turn to the Lord your God :
speak to him ,
that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness ,
but that ye may receive good things :
and we will render in return the fruit of our lips .
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Assur shall never save us ;
we will not mount on horseback ;
we will no longer say to the works of our hands ,
Our gods .
He who is in thee shall pity the orphan .
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I will restore their dwellings ,
I will love them (
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Gr .
manifestly (:
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truly :
for he has turned away my wrath from him .
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I will be as dew to Israel :
he shall bloom as the lily ,
and cast forth his roots as Libanus .
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His branches shall spread ,
and he shall be as a fruitful olive ,
and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus .
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They shall return ,
and dwell under his shadow :
they shall live and be satisfied with corn ,
and he shall flower as a vine :
his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus .
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What has he to do any more with idols ?
I have afflicted him ,
and I will strengthen him :
I am as a leafy juniper tree .
From me is thy fruit found .
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Who is wise ,
and will understand these things ?
or prudent ,
and will know them ?
for the ways of the Lord are straight ,
and the righteous shall walk in them :
but the ungodly shall fall therein .
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