Hosea:5-9
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Hear ye this ,
O priests ;
and hearken ,
ye house of Israel Yisra #
el #;
and give ye ear ,
O house of the king ;
for judgment is toward you ,
because ye have been a snare on Mizpah ,
and a net spread upon Tabor .
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And the revolters are profound to make slaughter ,
though I have been a rebuker of them all .
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I know Ephraim ,
and Israel is not hid from me :
for now ,
O Ephraim ,
thou committest whoredom ,
and Israel is defiled .
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They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God :
for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them ,
and they have not known the LORD .
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And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face :
therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity ;
Judah also shall fall with them .
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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD ;
but they shall not find him ;
he hath withdrawn himself from them .
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They have dealt treacherously against the LORD :
for they have begotten strange children :
now shall a month devour them with their portions .
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Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah Gib #
ah #,
and the trumpet in Ramah :
cry aloud at Bethaven Beyth ,
after thee ,
O Benjamin .
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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke :
among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be .
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The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound :
therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water .
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Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment ,
because he willingly walked after the commandment .
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Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth ,
and to the house of Judah as rottenness .
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When Ephraim saw his sickness ,
and Judah saw his wound ,
then went Ephraim to the Assyrian ,
and sent to king Jareb Y :
yet could he not heal you ,
nor cure you of your wound .
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For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion ,
and as a young lion to the house of Judah :
I ,
even I ,
will tear and go away ;
I will take away ,
and none shall rescue him .
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I will go and return to my place ,
till they acknowledge their offence ,
and seek my face :
in their affliction they will seek me early .
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Come ,
and let us return unto the LORD :
for he hath torn ,
and he will heal us ;
he hath smitten ,
and he will bind us up .
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After two days will he revive us :
in the third day he will raise us up ,
and we shall live in his sight .
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Then shall we know ,
if we follow on to know the LORD :
his going forth is prepared as the morning ;
and he shall come unto us as the rain ,
as the latter and former rain unto the earth .
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O Ephraim ,
what shall I do unto thee ?
O Judah ,
what shall I do unto thee ?
for your goodness is as a morning cloud ,
and as the early dew it goeth away .
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Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets ;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth :
and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth .
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For I desired mercy ,
and not sacrifice ;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings #
olah #
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But they like men have transgressed the covenant :
there have they dealt treacherously against me .
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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity ,
and is polluted with blood .
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man ,
so the company of priests murder in the way by consent sh @:
for they commit lewdness .
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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel Yisra #
el #:
there is the whoredom of Ephraim ,
Israel is defiled .
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Also ,
O Judah ,
he hath set an harvest for thee ,
when I returned the captivity of my people .
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When I would have healed Israel Yisra #
el #,
then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered ,
and the wickedness of Samaria :
for they commit falsehood ;
and the thief cometh in ,
and the troop of robbers spoileth without .
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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness :
now their own doings have beset them about ;
they are before my face .
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They make the king glad with their wickedness ,
and the princes with their lies .
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They are all adulterers ,
as an oven heated by the baker ,
who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough ,
until it be leavened .
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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ;
he stretched out his hand with scorners .
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven ,
whiles they lie in wait :
their baker sleepeth all the night ;
in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire .
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They are all hot as an oven ,
and have devoured their judges ;
all their kings are fallen :
there is none among them that calleth unto me .
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Ephraim ,
he hath mixed himself among the people ;
Ephraim is a cake not turned .
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Strangers have devoured his strength ,
and he knoweth it not :
yea ,
gray hairs are here and there upon him ,
yet he knoweth not .
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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face :
and they do not return to the LORD their God ,
nor seek him for all this .
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Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart :
they call to Egypt ,
they go to Assyria .
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When they shall go ,
I will spread my net upon them ;
I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven ;
I will chastise them ,
as their congregation hath heard .
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Woe unto them !
for they have fled from me :
destruction unto them !
because they have transgressed against me :
though I have redeemed them ,
yet they have spoken lies against me .
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart ,
when they howled upon their beds :
they assemble themselves for corn and wine ,
and they rebel against me .
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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms ,
yet do they imagine mischief against me .
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They return ,
but not to the most High :
they are like a deceitful bow :
their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue :
this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt .
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Set the trumpet to thy mouth .
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD ,
because they have transgressed my covenant ,
and trespassed against my law .
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Israel shall cry unto me ,
My God ,
we know thee .
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Israel hath cast off the thing that is good :
the enemy shall pursue him .
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They have set up kings ,
but not by me :
they have made princes ,
and I knew it not :
of their silver and their gold have they made them idols ,
that they may be cut off .
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Thy calf ,
O Samaria ,
hath cast thee off ;
mine anger is kindled against them :
how long will it be ere they attain to innocency ?
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For from Israel was it also :
the workman made it ;
therefore it is not God :
but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces .
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For they have sown the wind ,
and they shall reap the whirlwind :
it hath no stalk :
the bud shall yield no meal :
if so be it yield ,
the strangers shall swallow it up .
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Israel is swallowed up :
now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure .
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For they are gone up to Assyria ,
a wild ass alone by himself :
Ephraim hath hired lovers .
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Yea ,
though they have hired among the nations ,
now will I gather them ,
and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes .
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Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin ,
altars shall be unto him to sin .
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I have written to him the great things of my law ,
but they were counted as a strange thing .
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They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings ,
and eat it ;
but the LORD accepteth them not ;
now will he remember their iniquity ,
and visit their sins chatta #
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they shall return to Egypt .
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For Israel hath forgotten his Maker ,
and buildeth temples ;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities :
but I will send a fire upon his cities ,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof .
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Rejoice not ,
O Israel Yisra #
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for joy ,
as other people :
for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God ,
thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor goren #.
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The floor and the winepress shall not feed them ,
and the new wine shall fail in her .
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They shall not dwell in the LORDS land ;
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt ,
and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria .
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They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD ,
neither shall they be pleasing unto him :
their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners ;
all that eat thereof shall be polluted :
for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD .
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What will ye do in the solemn day ,
and in the day of the feast of the LORD ?
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For ,
lo ,
they are gone because of destruction :
Egypt shall gather them up ,
Memphis shall bury them :
the pleasant places for their silver ,
nettles shall possess them :
thorns shall be in their tabernacles .
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The days of visitation are come ,
the days of recompence are come ;
Israel shall know it :
the prophet is a fool ,
the spiritual man is mad ,
for the multitude of thine iniquity ,
and the great hatred .
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The watchman of Ephraim was with my God :
but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways ,
and hatred in the house of his God .
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They have deeply corrupted themselves ,
as in the days of Gibeah Gib #
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therefore he will remember their iniquity ,
he will visit their sins chatta #
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness ;
I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time re #
shiyth #:
but they went to Baalpeor Ba #
al P @#
owr #,
and separated themselves unto that shame ;
and their abominations were according as they loved .
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As for Ephraim ,
their glory shall fly away like a bird ,
from the birth ,
and from the womb ,
and from the conception .
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Though they bring up their children ,
yet will I bereave them ,
that there shall not be a man left :
yea ,
woe also to them when I depart from them !
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Ephraim ,
as I saw Tyrus ,
is planted in a pleasant place :
but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer .
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Give them ,
O LORD :
what wilt thou give ?
give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts .
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All their wickedness is in Gilgal :
for there I hated them :
for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house ,
I will love them no more :
all their princes are revolters .
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Ephraim is smitten ,
their root is dried up ,
they shall bear no fruit :
yea ,
though they bring forth ,
yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb .
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My God will cast them away ,
because they did not hearken unto him :
and they shall be wanderers among the nations .
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Israel is an empty vine ,
he bringeth forth fruit unto himself :
according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars ;
according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images .