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1:1 The word of the LORD that came to 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.
1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD
 said to Hosea, Go take to thee a wife addicted to lewdness and
 children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great
 lewdness, [departing] from the LORD.
1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who
 conceived, and bore him a son.
1:4 And the LORD said to 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.
1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the
 bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And [God] said
 to 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.
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.
1:8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore
 a son.
1:9 Then said [God], Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye [are] not my
 people, and I will not be your [God].
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 to
 them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said to them,
 [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel
 be assembled, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall
 come up from the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel.
2:1 Say ye to your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife,
 neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her
 prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between
 her breasts;
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 kill her with thirst.
2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [are]
 the children of lewdness.
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, my oil and my drink.
2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
 make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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.
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.
2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its time,
 and my wine in its season, and I will recover my wool and my
 flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
2:10 And now will I disclose her lewdness in the sight of her
 lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
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.
2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, of which
 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.
2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, in which she
 burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her
 ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and
 forgot me, saith the LORD.
2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
 the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.
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
 from the land of Egypt.
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.
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.
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 animals 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 in safety.
2:19 And I will betroth thee to me for ever; yes, I will betroth
 thee to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
 loving-kindness, and in mercies.
2:20 I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness: and thou
 shalt know the LORD.
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;
2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
 oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
2:23 And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have
 mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
 [them who were] not my people, Thou [art] my people; and they
 shall say, [Thou art] my God.
3:1 Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved by
 [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the
 LORD towards the children of Israel, who look to other gods,
 and love flagons of wine.
3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and
 [for] a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
3:3 And I said to 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.
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:
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.
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.
4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
 committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
 in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with
 the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be
 taken away.
4:4 Yet let no man contend, nor reprove another: for thy people
 [are] as they that contend with the priest.
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.
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.
4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
 [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart
 on their iniquity.
4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
 punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall be
 guilty of lewdness, and shall not increase: because they have
 ceased to take heed to the LORD.
4:11 Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.
4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff
 declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused
 [them] to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.
4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn
 incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms,
 because the shade of them is agreeable: therefore your
 daughters shall be guilty of lewdness, and your spouses shall
 commit adultery.
4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they are guilty of
 lewdness, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they
 themselves are separated with prostitutes, and they sacrifice
 with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand
 shall fall.
4:15 Though thou, Israel, playest the harlot, [yet] let not
 Judah offend; and come not ye to Gilgal, neither go ye up to
 Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the
 LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
4:18 Their drink is sour: they have been guilty of lewd deeds
 continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be
 ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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] towards
 you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread
 upon Tabor.
5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I
 [have been] a rebuker of them all.
5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O
 Ephraim, thou art guilty of lewdness, [and] Israel is defiled.
5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for
 the spirit of lewdness [is] in the midst of them, and they have
 not known the LORD.
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.
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.
5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they
 have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them
 with their portions.
5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah:
 cry aloud [at] Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
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.
5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
 [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
5:11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he
 willingly walked after the commandment.
5:12 Therefore [will] I [be] to Ephraim as a moth, and to the
 house of Judah as rottenness.
5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound,
 then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet
 he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
5:14 For I [will be] to 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].
5:15 I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge
 their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will
 seek me early.
6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and
 he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he
 raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
6:3 Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his
 going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us
 as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain to the earth.
6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do
 to thee? for your goodness [is] as the morning cloud, and as
 the early dew it goeth away.
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.
6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of
 God more than burnt-offerings.
6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
 they dealt treacherously against me.
6:8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is]
 polluted with blood.
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.
6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there
 [is] the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I
 returned the captivity of my people.
7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of
 Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they
 commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of
 robbers strippeth without.
7:2 And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all
 their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around;
 they are before my face.
7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
 princes with their lies.
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 is leavened.
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.
7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while
 they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the
 morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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 to me.
7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is
 a cake not turned.
7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it]
 not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he
 knoweth not.
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.
7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call
 to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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.
7:13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to
 them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have
 redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they
 howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and
 wine, [and] they rebel against me.
7:15 Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do
 they imagine mischief against me.
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.
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.
8:2 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.
8:3 Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy
 shall pursue him.
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 for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; my anger is
 kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to
 innocence?
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.
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 it
 shall yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles
 as a vessel in which [is] no pleasure.
8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
 himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
8:10 Yes, 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.
8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall
 be to him to sin.
8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but]
 they were counted as a strange thing.
8:13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of my 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.
8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
 and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a
 fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou
 hast apostatized from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon
 every corn-floor.
9:2 The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the
 new wine shall fail in her.
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.
9:4 They shall not offer wine-[offerings] to the LORD, neither
 shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices [shall be] to
 them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be
 polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into
 the house of the LORD.
9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the
 feast of the LORD?
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.
9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are
 come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the
 spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and
 the great hatred.
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.
9:9 They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of
 Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will
 visit their sins.
9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
 fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time:
 [but] they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to
 [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they
 loved.
9:11 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,
 from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave
 them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yes, woe also
 to them when I depart from them!
9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, [is] planted in a pleasant place:
 but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
 miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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 my house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are]
 revolters.
9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall
 bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay
 [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.
9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken
 to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
10:1 Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit to
 himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath
 multiplied the altars; according to the goodness of his land
 they have made goodly images.
10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he
 shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
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?
10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a
 covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows
 of the field.
10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves
 of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its
 priests [that] rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it is
 departed from it.
10:6 It shall also be carried to Assyria, [for] a present to
 king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be
 ashamed of his own counsel.
10:7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the
 water.
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.
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.
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.
10:11 And Ephraim [is as] a 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.
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 shall come and reign righteousness upon you.
10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye
 have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou hast trusted in thy
 way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all
 thy fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered
 Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in
 pieces upon [her] children.
10:15 So shall Beth-el do to you because of your great
 wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be utterly
 cut off.
11:1 When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my
 son out of Egypt.
11:2 [As] they called them, so they went from them: they
 sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but
 they knew not that I healed them.
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 food for them.
11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the
 Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume
 his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
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].
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? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are
 kindled together.
11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my 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.
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.
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.
11:12 Ephraim encompasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel
 with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful
 with the saints.
12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind:
 he daily multiplieth lies and desolation; and they do make a
 covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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.
12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his
 strength he had power with God:
12:4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept,
 and made supplication to him: he found him [in] Beth-el, and
 there he spoke with us;
12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment,
 and wait on thy God continually.
12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his
 hand: he loveth to oppress.
12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for
 myself substance: [in] all my labors they shall find no
 iniquity in me that [were] sin.
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.
12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
 visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
12:11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity:
 they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars [are] as
 heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel
 served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and
 by a prophet was he preserved.
12:14 Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore
 will he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach will his
 Lord return to him.
13:1 When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;
 but when he offended in Baal, he died.
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 artificers: they say of
 them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
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 from the floor, and as the smoke from the
 chimney.
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 savior besides
 me.
13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
 drouth.
13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
 filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they
 forgotten me.
13:7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the
 way will I observe [them].
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.
13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thy
 help.
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?
13:11 I gave thee a king in my anger, and took [him] away in my
 wrath.
13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.
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.
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
 my eyes.
13:15 Though he is 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 pillage the treasure of all
 pleasant vessels.
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.
14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen
 by thy iniquity.
14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take
 away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we
 render the calves of our lips.
14:3 Ashur 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.
14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for
 my anger is turned away from him.
14:5 I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily
 and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
 olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
14:7 They that dwell under his shade shall return; they shall
 revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent of it
 [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.
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.
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 in them.