HOSEA
11.8
- For a present to King Contentious;
- Ephraim shall receive shame,
- And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
- 7As for Samaria, her king is cut off,
- As foam upon the water.
- 8The high places also of Aven shall be destroyed,
- Even the sin of Israel.
- 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.'
- 9From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel;
- There they stood;
- No battle was to overtake them in Gibeah,
- Nor the children of arrogancy.
- 10When it is My desire, I will chastise them;
- And the peoples shall be gathered against them,
- When they are yoked to their two rings.
- 11And Ephraim is a heifer well broken,
- That loveth to thresh,
- And I have passed over upon her fair neck;
- I will make Ephraim to ride, Judah shall plow,
- Jacob shall break his clods.
- 12Sow to yourselves according to righteousness,
- Reap according to mercy,
- Break up your fallow ground;
- For it is time to seek the Lord,
- Till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you.
- 13Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity,
- Ye have eaten the fruit of lies;
- For thou didst trust in thy way,
- In the multitude of thy mighty men.
- 14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy hosts,
- And all thy fortresses shall be spoiled,
- As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle;
- The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
- 15So hath Beth-el done unto you
- Because of your great wickedness;
- At daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.
- 11When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
- And out of Egypt I called My son.
- 2The more they called them, the more they went from them;
- They sacrificed unto the Baalim,
- And offered to graven images.
- 3And I, I taught Ephraim to walk,
- Taking them by their arms;
- But they knew not that I healed them.
- 4I 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 fed them gently.
- 5He shall not return into the land of Egypt,
- But the Assyrian shall be his king,
- Because they refused to return.
- 6And the sword shall fall upon his cities,
- And shall consume his bars, and devour them,
- Because of their own counsels.
- 7And My people are in suspense about returning to Me;
- And though they call them upwards,
- None at all will lift himself up.
- 8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?
- How shall I surrender thee, Israel?
- How shall I make thee as Admah?
- How shall I set thee as Zeboim?
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