Hosea:13

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bbe @Hosea:13:1 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:2 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:3 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:4 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:5 @I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was . bbe @Hosea:13:6 @When I gave them food they were full , and their hearts were full of pride , and they did not keep me in mind . bbe @Hosea:13:7 @So I will be like a lion to them ; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road ; bbe @Hosea:13:8 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:9 @I have sent destruction on you , O Israel ; who will be your helper ? bbe @Hosea:13:10 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:11 @I have given you a king , because I was angry , and have taken him away in my wrath . bbe @Hosea:13:12 @The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up ; his sin is put away in secret . bbe @Hosea:13:13 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:14 @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 . bbe @Hosea:13:15 @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 bbe @Hosea:13:16 @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 .

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