HOSEA
9.7
- 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.
- 5Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off;
- Mine anger is kindled against them;
- How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
- 6For from Israel is even this:
- The craftsman made it, and it is no God;
- Yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in shivers.
- 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind;
- It hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal;
- If so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
- 8Israel is swallowed up;
- Now are they become among the nations
- As a vessel wherein is no value.
- 9For they are gone up to Assyria,
- Like a wild ass alone by himself;
- Ephraim hath hired lovers.
- 10Yea, though they hire among the nations,
- Now will I gather them up;
- And they begin to be minished
- By reason of the burden of king and princes.
- 11For Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin,
- Yea, altars have been unto him to sin.
- 12Though I write for him never so many things of My Law,
- They are accounted as a stranger's.
- 13As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me,
- Let them sacrifice flesh and eat it,
- For the Lord accepteth them not.
- Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins;
- They shall return to Egypt.
- 14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker,
- And builded palaces,
- And Judah hath multiplied fortified cities;
- But I will send a fire upon his cities,
- And it shall devour the castles thereof.
- 9Rejoice not, O Israel, unto exultation, like the peoples,
- For thou hast gone astray from thy God,
- Thou hast loved a harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
- 2The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
- And the new wine shall fail her.
- 3They shall not dwell in the Lord's land;
- But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
- And they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
- 4They shall not pour out 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 shall be for their appetite,
- It shall not come into the house of the Lord.
- 5What will ye do in the day of the appointed season,
- And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
- 6For, lo, they are gone away from destruction,
- Yet Egypt shall gather them up,
- Memphis shall bury them;
- Their precious treasures of silver, nettles shall possess them,
- Thorns shall be in their tents.
- 7The days of visitation are come,
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