9.7
HOSEA
- The days of recompense are come,
- Israel shall know it.
- The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!
- For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.
- 8Ephraim is a watchman with my God;
- As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways,
- And enmity in the house of his God.
- 9They have deeply corrupted themselves,
- As in the days of Gibeah;
- He will remember their iniquity,
- He will punish their sins.
- 10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness,
- I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season,
- But so soon as they came to Baal-peor,
- They separated themselves unto the shameful thing,
- And became detestable like that which they loved.
- 11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird;
- There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
- 12Yea, though they bring up their children,
- Yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left;
- Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- 13Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place;
- But Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
- 14Give them, O Lord, whatsoever Thou wilt give;
- Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal,
- For there I hated them;
- Because of the wickedness of their doings
- I will drive them out of My house;
- I will love them no more,
- All their princes are rebellious.
- 16Ephraim is smitten,
- Their root is dried up,
- They shall bear no fruit;
- Yea, though they bring forth,
- Yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
- 17My God will cast them away,
- Because they did not hearken unto Him;
- And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- 10Israel was a luxuriant vine,
- Which put forth fruit freely:
- As his fruit increased,
- He increased his altars;
- The more goodly his land was,
- The more goodly were his pillars.
- 2Their heart is divided;
- Now shall they bear their guilt;
- He will break down their altars,
- He will spoil their pillars.
- 3Surely now shall they say:
- 'We have no king;
- For we feared not the Lord;
- And the king, what can he do for us?'
- 4They speak words,
- They swear falsely, they make covenants;
- Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock
- In the furrows of the field.
- 5The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in dread
- For the calves of Beth-aven;
- For the people thereof shall mourn over it,
- And the priests thereof shall tremble for it,
- For its glory, because it is departed from it.
- 6It also shall be carried unto Assyria,
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