bes - Hosea:4-6

bes@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

bes@Hosea:4:2 @ Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

bes@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

bes@Hosea:4:4 @ that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove another; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

bes@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore they shall fall by (note:)Or, certain days(:note) day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

bes@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are (note:)Gr. likened, Hebrews. hmd(:note) like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

bes@Hosea:4:7 @ According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

bes@Hosea:4:8 @ They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their (note:)Gr. souls, see A. V. and margin(:note) hearts on their iniquities.

bes@Hosea:4:9 @ And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on (note:)auton, sc. the people, or, him the priest(:note) them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

bes@Hosea:4:10 @ And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:11 @ The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

bes@Hosea:4:12 @ They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to (note:)Gr. him, his, sc. the people(:note) them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

bes@Hosea:4:13 @ They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

bes@Hosea:4:14 @ And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

bes@Hosea:4:15 @ But thou, O Israel, (note:)Or, sin not, i. e. a sin of ignorance(:note) be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

bes@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim, (note:)Gr. a partaker of idols(:note) joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

bes@Hosea:4:18 @ He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

bes@Hosea:4:19 @ Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

bes@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the (note:)Or, judgement is toward you(:note) controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Or, the watchtower Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,

bes@Hosea:5:2 @ which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I (note:)Gr. will be your corrector(:note) will correct you.

bes@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel (note:)Lit. has not departed; Alex. apestin(:note) is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.

bes@Hosea:5:4 @ They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

bes@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall (note:)Gr. be weak(:note) fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

bes@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.

bes@Hosea:5:7 @ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

bes@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.

bes@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim has come to (note:)Gr. vanishing(:note) nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

bes@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.

bes@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

bes@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.

bes@Hosea:5:13 @ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

bes@Hosea:5:14 @ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

bes@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.

bes@Hosea:6:1 @ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

bes@Hosea:6:2 @ he will smite, and bind us up.

bes@Hosea:6:3 @ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know him:

bes@Hosea:6:4 @ let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

bes@Hosea:6:5 @ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your (note:)Comp. Hebrews. and Da strkjv@9:16(:note) mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

bes@Hosea:6:6 @ Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.

bes@Hosea:6:7 @

bes@Hosea:6:8 @ But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

bes@Hosea:6:9 @ there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

bes@Hosea:6:10 @ And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

bes@Hosea:6:11 @ I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

bes@Hosea:6:12 @ begin together grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

bes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber (note:)Lit. stripping(:note) spoiling in his way;