Israel's iniquity and rebellion. 1 to stir the fire HOSEA, 8. Her idolatry. Ephraim was discovered, and the the sword for the rage of their wickedness of Samaria: for they tongue: this shall be their derision commit falsehood; and the thief in the land of Egypt. cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 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. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 1 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. 5 In the day of our king the 2 themselves princes have made him sick with 3 bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 3 the heat 4 peoples; 5 understanding: 6 wandered 7 grain 8 taught 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. 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. 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 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. CHAPTER 8. 1, 12 Destruction is threatened for their SET the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because nant, and trespassed against my they have transgressed my covelaw. 29 Israel shall cry unto me. My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 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. They shall ery unto me, My God, we Israel know thee. 5¶ 10 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath 10 He hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled | cast off thy against them: how long will it be calf, ere they attain to innocency? 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. 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. O Samaria; 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the "Gentiles | 11 nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone upto Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Eph- | 12 like a raim hath hired lovers. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly 12, dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 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. 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. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they as semble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceit ful bow their princes shall fall by ga wild ass 10 Yea, though they 13 have hired 18 hire among the nations, now will I ther them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be 14 have been unto him to sin. 14 12 15 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 15 Thongh I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them they are not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth 1 temples; 16 palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Captivity of Israel foretold. CHAPTER 9. HOSEA, 9, 10. The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry. EJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, Reproofs and threats. Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a mis Rus other not, le! hast carrying womb and d a m gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 3 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 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 5for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 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. 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. 9 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: 10 but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, hatred in the house of his and God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 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 12 shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. 11 ds for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 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! 14 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but 15 All their wickedness is in for the wickedness of their doings Gilgal for there I hated them: I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. 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. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. CHAPTER 10. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry. an empty vine, he 15 a luxuriISRAEL is 15 bringeth forth fruit unto him- ant self: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath 16 increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly 17 images. 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their 17 images. 18 16 multiplied his 17 pillars. 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared 18 for we fear not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. 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. 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king shall receive Jareb: Ephraim shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 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. God's goodness to Israel. 1 peoples to their two 3 grain; 4 set a rider HOSEA, 11, 12. 8 The story of Jacob recalled, 10 It is in my desire that I Zeboim? mine heart is turned 3 2 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. 9 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 on Ephraim, Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, LORD: he shall roar like a lion: 10 They shall walk after the and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in right-ren shall tremble from the west. when he shall roar, then the childeousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 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. 5 the Baalim, 6 on my 7 food before 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. 15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. CHAPTER 11. 11 They shall tremble as a bird trembling out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. 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 10 saints. CHAPTER 12. 1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob. 2 The LORD hath also a contro- 10 Holy One, 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his 11 in his strength he had power with God: manhood 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 12 LORD, the God 5 Even the 12 LORD God of hosts; 5 He shall not return into the 7¶lle is a 14 merchant, the ba- 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. 15 become rich, I have found me out 14 trafficker, 15 defraud. 16 Surely 9 And I that am the LORD thy 17 But rael? how shall I make thee as 10 I have also spoken by the Israel's ingratitude and folly. HOSEA, 13, 14. visions, and used similitudes, by | 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. 13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. 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. CHAPTER 13. 1 Ephraim's glory, by reason of idolatry, WHI A call to repentance. 16 Samaria shall become deso-8 bear her late; for she hath rebelled against guilt; her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. CHAPTER 14. mise of God's blessing. 2 And now they sin more and 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. 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them : 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will 9¶O Israel, thou hast destroyed 3 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? ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 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. 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither of our hands, Ye are our gods: for will we say any more to the work in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Leba non. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. as calves the offering of our lips. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the 10 corn, and grow as the 10 grain, vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have "heard him, and observed him: 11 answered, *Heb. Sheol. and will regard him: Devastation by locusts. 1 meal 2 grain I am like a green fir tree. me is thy fruit found. 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, CHAPTER 1. JOEL 4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it the branches thereof are away; made white. 8¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 1 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn, 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the 1 meal drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders old men and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty I shall it come. 4 16 Is not the meat cut off before food our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 2 clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 17 The seed is rotten under their 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, bethe flocks of sheep are made desocause they have no pasture; yea, late. 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 2 grain 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning 5 dawn spread upon the mountains: great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: |