vw - Hosea:5-9

vw@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear this, O priests, and pay attention, O house of Israel. And give ear, O house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

vw@Hosea:5:2 @ And revolters are deep in slaughter, though I chasten all of them.

vw@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have committed harlotry; Israel is defiled.

vw@Hosea:5:4 @ They do not devote their doings to turn back to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know Jehovah.

vw@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah shall also stumble with them.

vw@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they shall not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

vw@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought forth strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their heritage.

vw@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow the shofar in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Cry aloud at Beth-aven; after you, O Benjamin.

vw@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which is sure.

vw@Hosea:5:10 @ The rulers of Judah were like those who move borders; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

vw@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim is oppressed and crushed in judgment, because he has willingly walked, keeping back from the commandments.

vw@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore, I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

vw@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you, nor did he cure you of your wound.

vw@Hosea:5:14 @ For I am to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go away; I take away, and no one rescues.

vw@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go and return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.

vw@Hosea:6:1 @ Come, and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

vw@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days He will restore us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His presence.

vw@Hosea:6:3 @ Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

vw@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

vw@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the Words of My mouth; and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.

vw@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

vw@Hosea:6:7 @ But, like Adam, they have transgressed the covenant; they have dealt treacherously against Me there.

vw@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, foot-tracked with blood.

vw@Hosea:6:9 @ And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way, getting an early start at it; for they plot wickedness.

vw@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

vw@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, when I return the captives of My people.

vw@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have dealt falsely; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.

vw@Hosea:7:2 @ And they do not consider within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have surrounded them. They are before My face.

vw@Hosea:7:3 @ They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

vw@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he ceases from stirring after kneading the dough until it is leavened.

vw@Hosea:7:5 @ In the day of our king, the rulers have made themselves sick, inflamed with wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

vw@Hosea:7:6 @ For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

vw@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one among them calls unto Me.

vw@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.

vw@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have eaten up his strength, yet he does not know it. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled here and there on him, yet he does not know it.

vw@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him for all this.

vw@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart; they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

vw@Hosea:7:12 @ When they go, I will spread My net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, according to the report their congregation heard.

vw@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! For they have transgressed against Me. Though I redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

vw@Hosea:7:14 @ And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they wailed on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and wine; they turn aside from Me.

vw@Hosea:7:15 @ Though I disciplined, I made their arms strong; yet they devise evil against Me.

vw@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

vw@Hosea:8:1 @ Put the shofar to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed My covenant and have rebelled against My Law.

vw@Hosea:8:2 @ Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.

vw@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel has cast off the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

vw@Hosea:8:4 @ They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not acknowledge it. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.

vw@Hosea:8:5 @ O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. How long until they attain to innocence?

vw@Hosea:8:6 @ For it was also from Israel: The craftsman made it, but it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

vw@Hosea:8:7 @ For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no flour. If it should happen to produce, strangers will swallow it up.

vw@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

vw@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

vw@Hosea:8:10 @ Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them; and they shall begin to be few, because of the burden of the king of rulers.

vw@Hosea:8:11 @ Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, they are altars to him to sin.

vw@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written the great things of My Law for him, but they were counted as a strange thing.

vw@Hosea:8:13 @ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and they eat; but Jehovah does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

vw@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up his palaces.

vw@Hosea:9:1 @ O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have committed adultery against your God. You have loved for hire on every grain threshing floor.

vw@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

vw@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not live in the land of Jehovah. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

vw@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer wine to Jehovah; they shall not be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat it shall be defiled, for their bread for their life shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

vw@Hosea:9:5 @ What will you do in the appointed day, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

vw@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

vw@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation have come; the days of retribution have come. Israel shall know. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and your great hatred.

vw@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim is with my God, but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways; hatred is in the house of his God.

vw@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

vw@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to that shameful thing. And they became an abomination like that which they loved.

vw@Hosea:9:11 @ The glory of Ephraim shall fly away like a bird; from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.

vw@Hosea:9:12 @ Though they raise their sons, yet I will make them childless, until not a man is left. Yea, woe also to them when I turn away from them!

vw@Hosea:9:13 @ As I watched Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall lead out his sons to the slayer.

vw@Hosea:9:14 @ O Jehovah, give them. What will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

vw@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house because of the wickedness of their doings, I will love them no more; all their rulers are rebellious.

vw@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.

vw@Hosea:9:17 @ My God shall cast them away because they did not give heed to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

vw@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel empties his vine; he bears fruit for himself. According to the abundance of his fruit he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.