The Book of Hosea of the Christian Holy Bible

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

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

Hosea 1:3 So he went and took  Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare  him a son. 

Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his  name Jezreel; for yet a little while, 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. 

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.  

Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And  God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will  no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will  utterly take them away. 

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.  

Hosea 1:8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she  conceived, and bare a son. 

Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his  name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be  your God.  

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, that in the place  where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there  it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living  God. 

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 out of the  land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.   

Hosea 2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your  sisters, Ru-hamah. 

Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for  she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her  therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her  adulteries from between her breasts; 

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 slay her  with thirst. 

Hosea 2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her  children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 

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 me my bread and my water, my wool and my  flax, mine oil and my drink.  

Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with  thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.  

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  them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first  husband; for then was it better with me than now. 

Hosea 2:8  For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,  and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared  for Baal. 

Hosea 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my  corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof,  and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her  nakedness. 

Hosea 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in  the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of  mine hand. 

Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease,  her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her  solemn feasts. 

Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her  fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that  my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest,  and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 

Hosea 2:13 And I will  visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned  incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings  and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me,  saith the LORD.   

Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her  into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 

Hosea 2:15  And I will give her her vineyards from thence, 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  up out of the land of Egypt. 

Hosea 2:16 And it shall be at that  day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt  call me no more Baali. 

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. 

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 with 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  safely. 

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

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

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; 

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

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

Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a  woman beloved of her 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. 

Hosea 3:2 So I  bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an  homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: 

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

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 without teraphim: 

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.  

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 there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge  of God in the land. 

Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and  killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break  out, and blood toucheth blood. 

Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the  land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein 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.  

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

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.   

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.  

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

Hosea 4:8 They  eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their  iniquity. 

Hosea 4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest:  and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their  doings. 

Hosea 4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they  shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because  they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 

Hosea 4:11  Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.  

Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their  staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath  caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from  under their God. 

Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the  mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and  poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good:  therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your  spouses shall commit adultery. 

Hosea 4:14 I will not punish  your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your  spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are  separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots:  therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.  

Hosea 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not  Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up  to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. 

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

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim  is joined to idols: let him alone. 

Hosea 4:18 Their drink is  sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her  rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 

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

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  is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah,  and a net spread upon Tabor. 

Hosea 5:2 And the revolters are  profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker  of them all. 

Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid  from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom,  and Israel is defiled. 

Hosea 5:4 They will not frame their  doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms  is in the midst of them, and they have not known the  LORD. 

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. 

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

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. 

Hosea 5:8 Blow ye the cornet  in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven,  after thee, O Benjamin. 

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. 

Hosea 5:10 The  princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:  therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.  

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

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

Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim  saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went  Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could  he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. 

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

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they  acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their  affliction they will seek me early.   

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  us up. 

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

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

Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah,  what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a  morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 

Hosea 6:5  Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain  them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as  the light that goeth forth. 

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

Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the  covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.  

Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is  polluted with blood. 

Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for  a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by  consent: for they commit lewdness. 

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

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

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, and  the troop of robbers spoileth without. 

Hosea 7:2 And they  consider not in their hearts that I remember all their  wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about;  they are before my face. 

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

Hosea 7:4  They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,  who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough,  until it be leavened. 

Hosea 7:5 In the day of our king the princes  have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out  his hand with scorners. 

Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready  their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker  sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming  fire. 

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

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

Hosea 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth  it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he  knoweth not. 

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.  

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

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. 

Hosea 7:13 Woe unto them! for  they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because  they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed   them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 

Hosea 7:14 And  they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they  howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn  and wine, and they rebel against me. 

Hosea 7:15 Though I  have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they  imagine mischief against me. 

Hosea 7:16 They return, but not  to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes  shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this  shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.   

Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as  an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have  transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.  

Hosea 8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.  

Hosea 8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy  shall pursue him. 

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

Hosea 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine  anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they  attain to innocency? 

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

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 so be it yield, the  strangers shall swallow it up. 

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

Hosea 8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a  wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.  

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. 

Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim hath  made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.  

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

Hosea 8:13 They  sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat  it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he  remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall  return to Egypt. 

Hosea 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker,  and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced  cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall  devour the palaces thereof.  

Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for  thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a  reward upon every cornfloor. 

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

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

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

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

Hosea 9:6 For, lo, they are gone  because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up,  Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their  silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their  tabernacles. 

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days  of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet  is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of  thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 

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

Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in  the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their  iniquity, he will visit their sins. 

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: but they went to Baal-peor,  and separated themselves unto that shame; and their  abominations were according as they loved. 

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

Hosea 9:12  Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave  them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also  to them when I depart from them! 

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

Hosea 9:14 Give them,  O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying  womb and dry breasts. 

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

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 even the beloved  fruit of their womb. 

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

Hosea 10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit  unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath  increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land  they have made goodly images. 

Hosea 10:2 Their heart is  divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break  down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 

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? 

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. 

Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because  of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall  mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it,  for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. 

Hosea 10:6  It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king  Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be  ashamed of his own counsel. 

Hosea 10:7 As for Samaria, her  king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 

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. 

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. 

Hosea 10:10 It is 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. 

Hosea 10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer  that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I  passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride;  Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 

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

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

Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a  tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall  be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth- arbel in the day of  battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.  

Hosea 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great  wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be  cut off.  

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

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

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

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 meat unto them.   

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

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

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 him. 

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

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

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. 

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. 

Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies,  and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with  God, and is faithful with the saints.  

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

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. 

Hosea 12:3 He  took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his  strength he had power with God: 

Hosea 12:4 Yea, he had power  over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made  supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there  he spake with us; 

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

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

Hosea 12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in  his hand: he loveth to oppress. 

Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said,  Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in  all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that  were sin. 

Hosea 12:9 And I that am 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. 

Hosea 12:10 I have also  spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and  used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. 

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

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

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

Hosea 12:14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most  bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his  reproach shall his Lord return unto him.  

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted  himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.  

Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made  them molten images of their silver, and 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.  

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

Hosea 13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the  land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for  there is no saviour beside me.   

Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of  great drought. 

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

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

Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved  of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and  there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear  them. 

Hosea 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in  me is thine help. 

Hosea 13:10 I will be thy king: where is any  other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of  whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 

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

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

Hosea 13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman  shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should  not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.  

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 mine eyes.  

Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his 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 spoil the treasure of  all pleasant vessels. 

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.  

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

Hosea 14:2 Take with you words,  and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity,  and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of  our lips. 

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

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

Hosea 14:5 I  will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and  cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 

Hosea 14:6 His branches shall  spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his  smell as Lebanon. 

Hosea 14:7 They that dwell under his shadow  shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the  vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.  

Hosea 14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more  with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am  like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. 

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

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