bes - Hosea:10-14

bes@Hosea:10:1 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:2 @ They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

bes@Hosea:10:3 @ Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord:

bes@Hosea:10:4 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:5 @ 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 (note:)Gr. him, or it, i. e., the people(:note) them.

bes@Hosea:10:6 @ 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 (note:)Lit. in(:note) of his counsel.

bes@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

bes@Hosea:10:8 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:9 @ From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity

bes@Hosea:10:10 @ 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,

bes@Hosea:10:11 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:12 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:13 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:10:14 @ 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,

bes@Hosea:10:15 @ thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.

bes@Hosea:11:1 @ 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 (note:)Mt strkjv@2:15(:note) out of Egypt have I called his children.

bes@Hosea:11:2 @ As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.

bes@Hosea:11:3 @ Yet I (note:)See Pr strkjv@20:11(:note) bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.

bes@Hosea:11:4 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:11:5 @ Ephraim dwelt in Egypt; and as for the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.

bes@Hosea:11:6 @ And in his cities he (note:)Or, fell by the sword; Lit. was weak(:note) prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased to war with his hands: and they shall eat of the fruit of their own devices:

bes@Hosea:11:7 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:11:8 @ How shall I deal with thee, Ephraim? how shall I protect thee, Israel? what shall I do with thee? (note:)Or, shall I, etc.(:note) 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.

bes@Hosea:11:9 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:11:10 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:11:11 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:11:12 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:1 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:2 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

bes@Hosea:12:4 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:5 @ But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

bes@Hosea:12:6 @ Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgement, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

bes@Hosea:12:7 @ As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

bes@Hosea:12:8 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:9 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:12:10 @ And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

bes@Hosea:12:11 @

bes@Hosea:12:12 @ And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

bes@Hosea:12:13 @ And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.

bes@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim was angry and (note:)Gr. excited himself to anger(:note) excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.

bes@Hosea:13:1 @ According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

bes@Hosea:13:2 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:13:3 @ 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 (note:)Alex. smoke out of the chimney(:note) vapor from tears.

bes@Hosea:13:4 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:13:5 @ I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

bes@Hosea:13:6 @ According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.

bes@Hosea:13:7 @ And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard.

bes@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear (note:)Or, perplexed(:note) 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.

bes@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, who will aid thee in thy destruction?

bes@Hosea:13:10 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:13:11 @ And I gave thee a king in mine anger, and kept him back in my wrath.

bes@Hosea:13:12 @ Ephraim has framed a (note:)Or, bundle of iniquity(:note) conspiracy of unrighteousness, his sin is hidden.

bes@Hosea:13:13 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:13:14 @ I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is thy (note:)Or, cause(:note) penalty, O death? 1 Co strkjv@15:55 O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

bes@Hosea:13:15 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:1 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:2 @ Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

bes@Hosea:14:3 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:4 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:5 @ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them (note:)Gr. manifestly(:note) truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

bes@Hosea:14:6 @ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.

bes@Hosea:14:7 @ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus.

bes@Hosea:14:8 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:9 @ 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.

bes@Hosea:14:10 @ 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.