chapter_Hosea_13
Hosea 13:1: When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth. Hosea 13:2: And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding &#8212; idols, A work of artisans &#8212; all of it, Of them they say, who are sacrificers among men, 'The calves let them kiss.' Hosea 13:3: Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window. Hosea 13:4: And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour &#8212; there is none save Me. Hosea 13:5: I &#8212; I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts. Hosea 13:6: According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me, Hosea 13:7: And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out. Hosea 13:8: I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart. Hosea 13:9: And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them. Hosea 13:10: Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me is thy help, Where is thy king now &#8212; And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, 'Give to me a king and heads?' Hosea 13:11: I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath. Hosea 13:12: Bound up is the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden is his sin, Hosea 13:13: Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He is a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons. Hosea 13:14: From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes. Hosea 13:15: Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It &#8212; it spoileth a treasure &#8212; every desirable vessel. Hosea 13:16: Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!
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