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rwbs@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

rwbs@Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry: for the land hath committed great harlotry, from the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who conceived, and bore him a son.

rwbs@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. (note:)avenge: Hebrews. visit(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:1:5 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

rwbs@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And said to him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. (note:)Loruhamah: that is, Not having obtained mercy(:note)no…: Hebrews. not add any more tobut…: or, that I should altogether pardon them

rwbs@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

rwbs@Hosea:1:9 @ Then said, Call his name Loammi: for ye not my people, and I will not be your. (note:)Loammi: that is, Not my people(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people, it shall be said to them, the sons of the living God. (note:)in…: or, instead of that(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:1:11 @ Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up from the land: for great the day of Jezreel.

rwbs@Hosea:2:2 @ Contend with your mother, contend: for she not my wife, neither I her husband: let her therefore put away her harlotry out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

rwbs@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

rwbs@Hosea:2:4 @ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they the children of harlotry.

rwbs@Hosea:2:5 @ For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. (note:)drink: Hebrews. drinks(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. (note:)make…: Hebrews. wall a wall(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then better with me than now.

rwbs@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, they prepared for Baal. (note:)wine: Hebrews. new wine(:note)which…: or, wherewith they made Baal

rwbs@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore will I return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will recover my wool and my flax to cover her nakedness. (note:)recover: or, take away(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:10 @ And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. (note:)lewdness: Hebrews. folly, or, villany(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she hath said, These my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. (note:)destroy: Hebrews. make desolate(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will judge her for the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her. (note:)comfortably: or, friendly: Hebrews. to her heart(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:2:15 @ And I will give her her vineyards there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from the land of Egypt.

rwbs@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. (note:)Ishi: that is, My husband(:note)Baali: that is, My lord

rwbs@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

rwbs@Hosea:2:18 @ And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down in safety.

rwbs@Hosea:2:19 @ And I will betroth thee to me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

rwbs@Hosea:2:20 @ I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

rwbs@Hosea:2:22 @ And the earth shall hear the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

rwbs@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to not my people, Thou my people; and they shall say, my God.

rwbs@Hosea:3:1 @ Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved by friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. (note:)of wine: Hebrews. of grapes(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: (note:)half…: Hebrews. lethech(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said to her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for man: so I also for thee.

rwbs@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and teraphim: (note:)image: Hebrews. a standing, or, statue, or, pillar(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

rwbs@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

rwbs@Hosea:4:2 @ By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. (note:)blood: Hebrews. bloods(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

rwbs@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet let no man contend, nor reprove another: for thy people as they that contend with the priest.

rwbs@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. (note:)destroy: Hebrews. cut off(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (note:)destroyed: Hebrews. cut off(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:4:7 @ As they were increased, so they sinned against me: will I change their glory into shame.

rwbs@Hosea:4:8 @ They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. (note:)set…: Hebrews. lift up their soul to(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:4:9 @ And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. (note:)punish: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)reward: Heb. cause to return

rwbs@Hosea:4:10 @ For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase: because they have stopped taking heed to to the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:4:11 @ Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

rwbs@Hosea:4:12 @ My people ask counsel at their idols, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of harlotry hath caused to err, and they have played the harlot from under their God.

rwbs@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because their shadow pleasant: therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

rwbs@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people doth not understand shall fall. (note:)I will not: or, Shall I not(:note)fall: or, be punished

rwbs@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, playest the harlot, let not Judah offend; and come not ye to Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

rwbs@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

rwbs@Hosea:4:18 @ Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers love shame more than glory. (note:)sour: Hebrews. gone(:note)rulers: Heb. shields

rwbs@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

rwbs@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

rwbs@Hosea:5:2 @ And the revolters are gone deeply into slaughter, though I a rebuker of them all. (note:)though: or, and(:note)a rebuker: Hebrews. a correction

rwbs@Hosea:5:4 @ They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of harlotry in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. (note:)They will…: or, Their doings will not suffer them(:note)frame: Hebrews. give

rwbs@Hosea:5:5 @ 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.

rwbs@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

rwbs@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

rwbs@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

rwbs@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

rwbs@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah were like them that remove a landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

rwbs@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim oppressed broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

rwbs@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. (note:)rottenness: or, a worm(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. (note:)king Jareb: or, the king of Jareb: or, the king that should plead(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:5:14 @ For I to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue.

rwbs@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (note:)acknowledge…: Hebrews. be guilty(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:6:1 @ Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

rwbs@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

rwbs@Hosea:6:3 @ Then shall we know, we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter former rain to the earth.

rwbs@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. (note:)goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore have I hewed by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments the light goeth forth. (note:)and…: or, that thy judgments might be, etc(:note)

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

rwbs@Hosea:6:7 @ But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. (note:)men: or, Adam(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead a city of them that work iniquity, polluted with blood. (note:)polluted: or, cunning for(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. (note:)by…: Hebrews. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem(:note)lewdness: or, enormity

rwbs@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

rwbs@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

rwbs@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, the troop of robbers plunder outside. (note:)wickedness: Hebrews. evils(:note)spoileth: Heb. strippeth

rwbs@Hosea:7:2 @ And they consider not in their hearts I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them on every side; they are before my face. (note:)consider…: Hebrews. say not to(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:3 @ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

rwbs@Hosea:7:4 @ They all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened. (note:)who…: or, the raiser will cease(:note)raising: or, waking

rwbs@Hosea:7:5 @ In the day of our king the princes have made sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (note:)bottles…: or, heat through wine(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:6 @ For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. (note:)made…: or, applied(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: none among them that calleth to me.

rwbs@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

rwbs@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. (note:)here…: Hebrews. sprinkled(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:10 @ 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.

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

rwbs@Hosea:7:12 @ 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.

rwbs@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. (note:)destruction: Hebrews. spoil(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:14 @ And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, they rebel against me.

rwbs@Hosea:7:15 @ Though I have bound strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. (note:)have…: or, chastened(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, 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 their derision in the land of Egypt.

rwbs@Hosea:8:1 @ the trumpet to thy mouth. as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. (note:)thy: Hebrews. the roof of thy(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:8:2 @ Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.

rwbs@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

rwbs@Hosea:8:4 @ They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold have they made for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

rwbs@Hosea:8:5 @ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast off; my anger is kindled against them: how long ere they attain to innocency?

rwbs@Hosea:8:6 @ For from Israel it also: the workman made it; therefore it not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

rwbs@Hosea:8:7 @ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if it shall yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. (note:)stalk: or, standing corn(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which no pleasure.

rwbs@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (note:)lovers: Hebrews. loves(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:8:10 @ 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. (note:)sorrow: or, begin(:note)a…: or, in a little while

rwbs@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written to him the great things of my law, they were counted as a strange thing.

rwbs@Hosea:8:13 @ They sacrifice flesh the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and judge their sins: they shall return to Egypt. (note:)They sacrifice…: or, In the sacrifices of mine offerings they, etc(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as people: for thou hast played the harlot from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every threshingfloor. (note:)upon: or, in, etc(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:2 @ The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. (note:)winepress: or, winefat(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean in Assyria.

rwbs@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer wine to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

rwbs@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns in their tabernacles. (note:)destruction: Hebrews. spoil(:note)the…: or, their silver shall be desired, the nettle, etc.: Heb. the desire

rwbs@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of punishment are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know: the prophet a fool, the spiritual man mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred. (note:)spiritual…: Hebrews. man of the spirit(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim with my God: the prophet a snare of a fowler in all his ways, hatred in the house of his God. (note:)in the: or, against the(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will judge their sins.

rwbs@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to shame; and abominations were according as they loved.

rwbs@Hosea:9:11 @ Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

rwbs@Hosea:9:12 @ Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, not a man: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

rwbs@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

rwbs@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. (note:)miscarrying: Hebrews. that casteth the fruit(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes revolters.

rwbs@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved of their womb. (note:)the…: Hebrews. the desires(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

rwbs@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit to himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images. (note:)an…: or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth(:note)images: Hebrews. statues, or, standing images

rwbs@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. (note:)Their heart…: or, He hath divided their heart(:note)break…: Hebrews. beheadimages: Heb. statues, or, standing images

rwbs@Hosea:10:3 @ For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

rwbs@Hosea:10:4 @ They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

rwbs@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it is departed from it. (note:)the priests…: or, Chemarim(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. (note:)the water: Hebrews. the face of the water(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

rwbs@Hosea:10:9 @ O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

rwbs@Hosea:10:10 @ in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. (note:)when…: or, when I shall bind them for their two transgressions, or, in their two habitations(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim an heifer taught, loveth to tread out; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods. (note:)her…: Hebrews. the beauty of her neck(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for time to seek the LORD, till he shall come and rain righteousness upon you.

rwbs@Hosea:10:13 @ Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou hast trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

rwbs@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon children.

rwbs@Hosea:10:15 @ So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off. (note:)your…: Hebrews. the evil of your evil(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:11:1 @ When Israel a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

rwbs@Hosea:11:2 @ they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

rwbs@Hosea:11:3 @ I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

rwbs@Hosea:11:4 @ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid food before them. (note:)take off: Hebrews. lift up(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:11:5 @ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

rwbs@Hosea:11:6 @ And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour, because of their own counsels.

rwbs@Hosea:11:7 @ And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt. (note:)none…: Hebrews. together they exalted not(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:11:8 @ How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? shall I set thee as Zeboim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.

rwbs@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

rwbs@Hosea:11:10 @ They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

rwbs@Hosea:11:11 @ They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim surroundeth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. (note:)saints: or, most holy(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily multiplieth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

rwbs@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. (note:)punish: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: (note:)had…: Hebrews. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:12:4 @ Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

rwbs@Hosea:12:5 @ Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD his memorial.

rwbs@Hosea:12:6 @ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

rwbs@Hosea:12:7 @ a merchant, the balances of deceit in his hand: he loveth to oppress. (note:)a merchant: or, Canaan(:note)oppress: or, deceive

rwbs@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: all my labours they shall find no iniquity in me that sin. (note:)in all…: or, all my labours suffice me not: he shall have punishment of iniquity in whom is sin(:note)that: Hebrews. which

rwbs@Hosea:12:9 @ And I the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

rwbs@Hosea:12:10 @ I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. (note:)ministry: Hebrews. hand(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:12:11 @ iniquity Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yea, their altars as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

rwbs@Hosea:12:12 @ And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept.

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

rwbs@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return to him. (note:)most…: Hebrews. with bitternesses(:note)blood: Heb. bloods

rwbs@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. (note:)they sin…: Hebrews. they add to sin(:note)the men…: or, the sacrificers of men

rwbs@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.

rwbs@Hosea:13:4 @ Yet I the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me: for no saviour besides me.

rwbs@Hosea:13:5 @ I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. (note:)great…: Hebrews. droughts(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:6 @ According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

rwbs@Hosea:13:7 @ Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe:

rwbs@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them as a bear bereaved, and will rend the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. (note:)wild…: Hebrews. beast of the field(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:10 @ I will be thy king: where that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? (note:)I will…: rather, Where is thy king?(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:11 @ I gave thee a king in my anger, and took away in my wrath.

rwbs@Hosea:13:12 @ The iniquity of Ephraim bound up; his sin hid.

rwbs@Hosea:13:13 @ The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the breaking forth of children. (note:)long: Hebrews. a time(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:14 @ I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes. (note:)power: Hebrews. hand(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he is fruitful among brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall plunder the treasure of all pleasant vessels. (note:)pleasant…: Hebrews. vessels of desire(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:13:16 @ Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

rwbs@Hosea:14:1 @ O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.

rwbs@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. (note:)receive…: or, give good(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

rwbs@Hosea:14:4 @ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

rwbs@Hosea:14:5 @ I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (note:)grow: or, blossom(:note)cast…: Hebrews. strike

rwbs@Hosea:14:6 @ His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon. (note:)spread: Hebrews. go(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:14:7 @ They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent of it as the wine of Lebanon. (note:)grow: or, blossom(:note)scent: or, memorial

rwbs@Hosea:14:9 @ Who wise, and he shall understand these? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

rwbs@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

rwbs@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

rwbs@Joel:1:3 @ Tell ye your children of it, and your children their children, and their children another generation.

rwbs@Joel:1:4 @ That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. (note:)That which the palmerworm…: Hebrews. The residue of the palmerworm(:note)

rwbs@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

rwbs@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

rwbs@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

rwbs@Joel:1:9 @ The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn.

rwbs@Joel:1:10 @ The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

rwbs@Joel:1:11 @ Be ye ashamed, O ye farmers; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.

rwbs@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

rwbs@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: wail, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.

rwbs@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders all the inhabitants of the land the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD, (note:)solemn…: or, day of restraint(:note)

rwbs@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

rwbs@Joel:1:16 @ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

rwbs@Joel:1:17 @ The seed hath perished under their clods, the storehouses are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered. (note:)seed: Hebrews. grains(:note)

rwbs@Joel:1:18 @ How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

rwbs@Joel:1:19 @ O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. (note:)pastures: or, habitations(:note)

rwbs@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field cry also to thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

rwbs@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for near at hand; (note:)trumpet: or, cornet(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:2 @ A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, to the years of many generations. (note:)of many…: Hebrews. of generation and generation(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

rwbs@Joel:2:4 @ The appearance of them as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

rwbs@Joel:2:5 @ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

rwbs@Joel:2:6 @ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. (note:)blackness: Hebrews. pot(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:7 @ They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

rwbs@Joel:2:8 @ Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. (note:)sword: or, dart(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:9 @ They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

rwbs@Joel:2:10 @ The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

rwbs@Joel:2:11 @ And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp very great: for strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

rwbs@Joel:2:12 @ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

rwbs@Joel:2:13 @ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth of the evil.

rwbs@Joel:2:14 @ Who knoweth he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; a meat offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?

rwbs@Joel:2:15 @ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

rwbs@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that nurse at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

rwbs@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where their God? (note:)rule over: or, use a byword against(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:18 @ Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

rwbs@Joel:2:19 @ And the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with it: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

rwbs@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far from you the northern, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his rear toward the west sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. (note:)hath…: Hebrews. hath magnified to do(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:21 @ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. (note:)will…: Hebrews. hath magnified to do(:note)

rwbs@Joel:2:22 @ Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

rwbs@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first. (note:)the former rain moderately: or, a teacher of righteousness(:note)moderately: Hebrews. according to righteousness

rwbs@Joel:2:24 @ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

rwbs@Joel:2:25 @ And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

rwbs@Joel:2:26 @ And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

rwbs@Joel:2:27 @ And ye shall know that I in the midst of Israel, and I the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

rwbs@Joel:2:29 @ And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

rwbs@Joel:2:30 @ And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

rwbs@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD shall come.

rwbs@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

rwbs@Joel:3:1 @ For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

rwbs@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will judge them there for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.

rwbs@Joel:3:3 @ And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

rwbs@Joel:3:4 @ Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly speedily I will return your recompence upon your own head;

rwbs@Joel:3:6 @ The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. (note:)the Grecians: Hebrews. the sons of the Grecians(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:7 @ Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

rwbs@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken.

rwbs@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: (note:)Prepare: Hebrews. Sanctify(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I strong. (note:)pruninghooks: or, scythes(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:11 @ Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together all around: there cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. (note:)cause…: or, the LORD shall bring down(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:12 @ Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side.

rwbs@Joel:3:13 @ Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness great.

rwbs@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD near in the valley of decision. (note:)decision: or, concision, or, threshing(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:15 @ The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

rwbs@Joel:3:16 @ The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. (note:)hope: Hebrews. place of repair, or, harbour(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:17 @ So shall ye know that I the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. (note:)holy: Hebrews. holiness(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (note:)flow: Hebrews. go(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:19 @ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

rwbs@Joel:3:21 @ For I will cleanse their blood I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. (note:)for the…: or, even I the LORD that(:note)

rwbs@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

rwbs@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

rwbs@Amos:1:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: (note:)and…: or, yea, for four(:note)turn…: or, convert it, or, let it be quiet

rwbs@Amos:1:4 @ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

rwbs@Amos:1:5 @ I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, saith the LORD. (note:)the plain…: or, Bikathaven(:note)the house…: or, Betheden

rwbs@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver up to Edom: (note:)away captive…: or, them away with an entire(:note)

rwbs@Amos:1:7 @ But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour its palaces:

rwbs@Amos:1:8 @ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

rwbs@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: (note:)the brotherly…: Hebrews. the covenant of brethren(:note)

rwbs@Amos:1:10 @ But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

rwbs@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: (note:)did cast…: Hebrews. corrupted his compassions(:note)

rwbs@Amos:1:12 @ But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

rwbs@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: (note:)ripped…: or, divided the mountains(:note)

rwbs@Amos:1:14 @ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

rwbs@Amos:1:15 @ And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

rwbs@Amos:2:2 @ But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, with the sound of the trumpet:

rwbs@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it and will slay all its princes with him, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:

rwbs@Amos:2:5 @ But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

rwbs@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

rwbs@Amos:2:7 @ That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to the maid, to profane my holy name: (note:)maid: or, young woman(:note)

rwbs@Amos:2:8 @ And they lay down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned the house of their god. (note:)the condemned: or, such as have fined, or, mulcted(:note)

rwbs@Amos:2:9 @ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height like the height of the cedars, and he strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

rwbs@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

rwbs@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:2:12 @ But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

rwbs@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: (note:)himself: Hebrews. his soul, or, life(:note)

rwbs@Amos:2:15 @ Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and swift of foot shall not deliver: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

rwbs@Amos:2:16 @ And courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. (note:)courageous: Hebrews. strong of his heart(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:1 @ Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

rwbs@Amos:3:2 @ You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. (note:)punish: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:3 @ Can two walk together, except they are agreed?

rwbs@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he hath taken nothing? (note:)cry: Hebrews. give forth his voice(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:5 @ Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no trap for him? shall take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

rwbs@Amos:3:6 @ Shalt a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done? (note:)be afraid: or, run together?(:note)the LORD…: or, shall not the LORD do somewhat?

rwbs@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret to his servants the prophets.

rwbs@Amos:3:8 @ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

rwbs@Amos:3:9 @ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst of it, and the oppressed in the midst of it. (note:)oppressed: or, oppressions(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:10 @ For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. (note:)robbery: or, spoil(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary even on every side the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.

rwbs@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus a couch. (note:)taketh: Hebrews. delivereth(:note)in Damascus…: or, on the bed’s feet

rwbs@Amos:3:13 @ Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

rwbs@Amos:3:14 @ That in the day that I shall judge the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also judge the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. (note:)visit: or, punish Israel for(:note)

rwbs@Amos:3:15 @ And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:4:1 @ Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

rwbs@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

rwbs@Amos:4:3 @ And ye shall go out at the breaches, every before her; and ye shall cast into the palace, saith the LORD. (note:)cast…: or, cast away the things of the palace(:note)

rwbs@Amos:4:4 @ Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes after three years: (note:)three…: Hebrews. three years of days(:note)

rwbs@Amos:4:5 @ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim declare the free offerings: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. (note:)offer: Hebrews. offer by burning(:note)this…: Heb. so ye love

rwbs@Amos:4:6 @ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:4:7 @ And also I have withheld the rain from you, when yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece on which it rained not withered.

rwbs@Amos:4:8 @ So two three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:4:9 @ I have smitten you with blighting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. (note:)when…: or, the multitude of your gardens, etc. did the palmerworm(:note)

rwbs@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. (note:)after…: or, in the way(:note)and have…: Hebrews. with the captivity of your horses

rwbs@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

rwbs@Amos:4:13 @ For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, his name. (note:)wind: or, spirit(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; none to raise her up.

rwbs@Amos:5:3 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

rwbs@Amos:5:4 @ For thus saith the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

rwbs@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

rwbs@Amos:5:6 @ Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour, and none to quench in Bethel.

rwbs@Amos:5:7 @ Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

rwbs@Amos:5:8 @ that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD his name:

rwbs@Amos:5:9 @ That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. (note:)spoiled: Hebrews. spoil(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

rwbs@Amos:5:11 @ Forasmuch therefore as your treading upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. (note:)pleasant…: Hebrews. vineyards of desire(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate. (note:)a bribe: or, a ransom(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it an evil time.

rwbs@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

rwbs@Amos:5:15 @ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

rwbs@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

rwbs@Amos:5:17 @ And in all vineyards wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end it for you? the day of the LORD darkness, and not light.

rwbs@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

rwbs@Amos:5:20 @ not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

rwbs@Amos:5:22 @ Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. (note:)peace…: or, thank offerings(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:23 @ Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy harps.

rwbs@Amos:5:25 @ Have ye offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

rwbs@Amos:5:26 @ But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Molech and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. (note:)the tabernacle…: or, Siccuth your king(:note)

rwbs@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name The God of hosts.

rwbs@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to them at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! (note:)are at…: or, are secure(:note)chief: or, firstfruits

rwbs@Amos:6:2 @ Pass ye to Calneh, and see; and from there go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

rwbs@Amos:6:3 @ Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; (note:)seat: or, habitation(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:4 @ That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall; (note:)stretch…: or, abound with superfluities(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:5 @ That chant to the sound of the harp, invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; (note:)chant: or, quaver(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:6 @ That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. (note:)wine…: or, in bowls of wine(:note)affliction: Hebrews. breach

rwbs@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

rwbs@Amos:6:8 @ The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all its abundance. (note:)that…: Hebrews. the fulness thereof(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:9 @ And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.

rwbs@Amos:6:10 @ And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that inside of the house, yet with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. (note:)we…: or, they will not, or, have not(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:11 @ For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. (note:)breaches: or, droppings(:note)

rwbs@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses run upon the rock? will plow with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

rwbs@Amos:6:14 @ But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the river of the wilderness. (note:)river: or, valley(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:1 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, the latter growth after the king’s mowings. (note:)grasshoppers: or, green worms(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:2 @ And it came to pass, when they had stopped eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he small. (note:)by…: or, who of (or, for,) Jacob shall stand?(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:3 @ The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:7:4 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part.

rwbs@Amos:7:5 @ Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he small. (note:)by…: or, who of (or, for,) Jacob shall stand?(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:6 @ The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

rwbs@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

rwbs@Amos:7:8 @ And the LORD said to me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

rwbs@Amos:7:9 @ And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

rwbs@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

rwbs@Amos:7:11 @ For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

rwbs@Amos:7:12 @ Also Amaziah said to Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

rwbs@Amos:7:13 @ But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it the king’s sanctuary, and it the king’s court. (note:)chapel: or, sanctuary(:note)king’s court: Hebrews. house of the kingdom

rwbs@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I no prophet, neither I a prophet’s son; but I an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit: (note:)sycomore…: or, wild figs(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:15 @ And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. (note:)as…: Hebrews. from behind(:note)

rwbs@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not against the house of Isaac.

rwbs@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go from his land into captivity.

rwbs@Amos:8:1 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

rwbs@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

rwbs@Amos:8:3 @ And the songs of the temple shall be wailing in that day, saith the Lord GOD: many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast forth with silence. (note:)shall be howlings: Hebrews. shall howl(:note)with…: Heb. be silent

rwbs@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

rwbs@Amos:8:5 @ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? (note:)new…: or, month(:note)set…: Hebrews. openfalsifying…: Heb. perverting the balances of deceit

rwbs@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?

rwbs@Amos:8:7 @ The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

rwbs@Amos:8:8 @ Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth in it? and it shall rise up wholly as a river; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as the river of Egypt.

rwbs@Amos:8:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

rwbs@Amos:8:10 @ And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only, and the end of it as a bitter day.

rwbs@Amos:8:11 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

rwbs@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find.

rwbs@Amos:8:13 @ In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

rwbs@Amos:8:14 @ They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise again. (note:)manner: Hebrews. way(:note)

rwbs@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. (note:)lintel: or, chapiter, or, knop(:note)cut…: or, wound them

rwbs@Amos:9:2 @ Though they dig into hell, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there will I bring them down:

rwbs@Amos:9:3 @ And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

rwbs@Amos:9:4 @ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

rwbs@Amos:9:5 @ And the Lord GOD of hosts he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell in it shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a river; and shall be drowned, as the river of Egypt.

rwbs@Amos:9:6 @ he that buildeth his chambers in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD his name. (note:)stories: or, spheres: Hebrews. ascensions(:note)troop: or, bundle

rwbs@Amos:9:7 @ ye not as children of the Cushites to me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel from the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

rwbs@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:9:9 @ For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the smallest grain fall upon the earth. (note:)sift: Hebrews. cause to move(:note)grain: Heb. stone

rwbs@Amos:9:10 @ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor fall upon us.

rwbs@Amos:9:11 @ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: (note:)close: Hebrews. hedge, or, wall(:note)

rwbs@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, who are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. (note:)which…: Hebrews. upon whom my name is called(:note)

rwbs@Amos:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (note:)soweth: Hebrews. draweth forth(:note)sweet: or, new

rwbs@Amos:9:14 @ And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

rwbs@Amos:9:15 @ And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

rwbs@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

rwbs@Obadiah:1:2 @ Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

rwbs@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

rwbs@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though thou shalt exalt as the eagle, and though thou shalt set thy nest among the stars, from there will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

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