lesserot Hosea:5-9
lesserot@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear this, O ye priests; and listen well, O ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for the punishment threateneth you; because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread out upon Thabor.
lesserot@Hosea:5:2 @ And for murdering they who had rebelled concealed themselves in deep places; but I will inflict correction on them all.
lesserot@Hosea:5:3 @ I well know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, hast thou played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
lesserot@Hosea:5:4 @ Their doings will not permit them to return unto their God; for the spirit of lewdness is in their bosom, and the Lord they have not known.
lesserot@Hosea:5:5 @ Therefore shall the pride of Israel be humbled before his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
lesserot@Hosea:5:6 @ With their flocks and with their herds will they go to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
lesserot@Hosea:5:7 @ Against the Lord have they dealt treacherously; for strange children have they begotten: now shall one month devour them together with their possessions.
lesserot@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the cornet in Gibah, the trumpet in Ramah: blow the alarm at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
lesserot@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim shall be made desolate on the day of chastisement: among the tribes of Israel had I made known that which is true.
lesserot@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah were like those that remove the landmark: my wrath, therefore, will I pour out upon them like water.
lesserot@Hosea:5:11 @ Oppressed is Ephraim, broken through punishment; because he willingly walked after the commandment.
lesserot@Hosea:5:12 @ But like the moth became I unto Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
lesserot@Hosea:5:13 @ Then saw Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, and Ephraim went to Asshur, and sent to the king that should contend; but he will never be able to heal you, nor remove from you your wound.
lesserot@Hosea:5:14 @ For I am as a lion unto Ephraim, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I myself will tear in pieces and go away; I will bear away, and none shall deliver.
lesserot@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek for me.
lesserot@Hosea:6:1 @ "Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind up our wounds.
lesserot@Hosea:6:2 @ He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.
lesserot@Hosea:6:3 @ And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morningdawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth."
lesserot@Hosea:6:4 @ What shall I do unto thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do unto thee, O Judah? for your piety is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away.
lesserot@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore did I hew down by means of the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy punishments go forth like the light.
lesserot@Hosea:6:6 @ For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burntofferings.
lesserot@Hosea:6:7 @ But they, like an ordinary man, have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
lesserot@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilad is become a city of workers of wickedness, is full of traces of blood.
lesserot@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops that lie in wait for a man, so is the band of priests, they murder on the way in unison; for they commit scandalous deeds.
lesserot@Hosea:6:10 @ On the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: there is lewdness in Ephraim, Israel is become defiled.
lesserot@Hosea:6:11 @ Also for thee, O Judah, will a harvest be prepared, when I bring back the captivity of my people.
lesserot@Hosea:7:1 @ Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth, and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.
lesserot@Hosea:7:2 @ And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.
lesserot@Hosea:7:3 @ With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.
lesserot@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: he that stirreth resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.
lesserot@Hosea:7:5 @ On the day of our kings the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: joineth his hand with scorners.
lesserot@Hosea:7:6 @ For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire.
lesserot@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
lesserot@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned.
lesserot@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his, yet he knoweth not.
lesserot@Hosea:7:10 @ And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.
lesserot@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.
lesserot@Hosea:7:12 @ As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.
lesserot@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.
lesserot@Hosea:7:14 @ And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.
lesserot@Hosea:7:15 @ And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.
lesserot@Hosea:7:16 @ They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
lesserot@Hosea:8:1 @ Set the cornet to thy mouth. like the eagle against the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law have they trespassed.
lesserot@Hosea:8:2 @ To me will they then cry, My God, we, Israel, know thee.
lesserot@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel did reject the good; so let the enemy pursue him.
lesserot@Hosea:8:4 @ They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will be cut off.
lesserot@Hosea:8:5 @ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves?
lesserot@Hosea:8:6 @ For whom Israel did also that spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters that calf of Samaria.
lesserot@Hosea:8:7 @ For the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would swallow it up.
lesserot@Hosea:8:8 @ Swallowed up is Israel: now are they among the nations as a vessel without any value.
lesserot@Hosea:8:9 @ For they are needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers gifts.
lesserot@Hosea:8:10 @ But even though they should spend gifts among the nations, now will I gather them: and they shall be humbled a little through the burden of the king of princes.
lesserot@Hosea:8:11 @ Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, the altars have been unto him the means of sinning.
lesserot@Hosea:8:12 @ I ever wrote down for him the great things of my law; but as a strange thing are they accounted.
lesserot@Hosea:8:13 @ My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed return to Egypt.
lesserot@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.
lesserot@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every cornfilled threshingfloor.
lesserot@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshingfloor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall deceive them.
lesserot@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria will they eat unclean things.
lesserot@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not pour out wine to the Lord, and shall not be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for this their food can only be for themselves, it shall not come into the house of the Lord.
lesserot@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
lesserot@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone forth because of the desolation: Egypt will gather them up, Moph will bury them: the pleasant chambers for their silver,these shall nettles take possession of; thorns shall in their tents.
lesserot@Hosea:9:7 @ Come are the days of the visitation, come are the days of thy recompense; this shall Israel experience: a fool was the prophet, mad the inspired man, because of the greatness of thy iniquity, and the great hatefulness.
lesserot@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim with my God, the prophet, was a snare of the fowler on all his ways, a hateful thing in the house of his god.
lesserot@Hosea:9:9 @ They are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gibah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
lesserot@Hosea:9:10 @ Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the figtree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Baalpeor: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.
lesserot@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there is no more birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.
lesserot@Hosea:9:12 @ But though they were to bring up their children, yet would I bereave them, that there should be no man: yea, woe also to themselves, when I depart from them!
lesserot@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, as I have seen him like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow,yet this Ephraim shall lead forth to the murderer his children.
lesserot@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O Lord, what thou wilt give! give them a miscarrying womb and driedup breasts.
lesserot@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hate them; for the wickedness of their doings will I drive them out of my house: I will love them no farther; all their princes are rebels.
lesserot@Hosea:9:16 @ Smitten is Ephraim, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet would I slay the beloved fruit of their body.
lesserot@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will reject them, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
lesserot@Hosea:10:1 @ An emptied vine is Israel; how should he bring forth fruit for himself? the more numerous was his fruit the more he increased the altars; the more prosperous was his land, the more they made goodly statues.
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