GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:28urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:28The word of the LORD that came unto 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 . The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea . And the LORD said to Hosea , Go , take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms : for the land hath committed great whoredom , departing from the LORD . So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim ; which conceived , and bare him a son . And the LORD said unto 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 . And it shall come to pass at that day , that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel . And she conceived again , and bare a daughter . And God said unto 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 . 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 . Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah , she conceived , and bare a son . Then said God , Call his name Lo-ammi : for ye are not my people , and I will not be your God . 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 unto them , Ye are not my people , there it shall be said unto them , Ye are the sons of the living God . Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together , and appoint themselves one head , and they shall come up out of the land : for great shall be the day of Jezreel . Say ye unto your brethren , Ammi ; and to your sisters , Ru-hamah . Plead with your mother , plead : for she is not my wife , neither am I her husband : let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight , and her adulteries from between her breasts ; 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 slay her with thirst . And I will not have mercy upon her children ; for they be the children of whoredoms . 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 , mine oil and my drink . Therefore , behold , I will hedge up thy way with thorns , and make a wall , that she shall not find her paths . 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 . 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 . Therefore will I return , and take away my corn in the time thereof , and my wine in the season thereof , and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness . And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers , and none shall deliver her out of mine hand . I will also cause all her mirth to cease , her feast days , her new moons , and her sabbaths , and all her solemn feasts . And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees , whereof 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 . And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim , wherein she burned incense to them , and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels , and she went after her lovers , and forgat me , saith the LORD . Therefore , behold , I will allure her , and bring her into the wilderness , and speak comfortably unto her . 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 up out of the land of Egypt . And it shall be at that day , saith the LORD , that thou shalt call me Ishi ; and shalt call me no more Baali . For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth , and they shall no more be remembered by their name . 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 things 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 safely . And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ; yea , I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness , and in judgment , and in lovingkindness , and in mercies . I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the LORD . 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 ; And the earth shall hear the corn , and the wine , and the oil ; and they shall hear Jezreel . And I will sow her unto me in the earth ; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy ; and I will say to them which were not my people , Thou art my people ; and they shall say , Thou art my God . Then said the LORD unto me , Go yet , love a woman beloved of her friend , yet an adulteress , according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel , who look to other gods , and love flagons of wine . So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver , and for an homer of barley , and an half homer of barley : And I said unto 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 . 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 : 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 . 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 . By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood . Therefore shall the land mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish , with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven ; yea , the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away . Yet let no man strive , nor reprove another : for thy people are as they that strive with the priest . Therefore shalt thou fall in the day , and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night , and I will destroy thy mother . 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 . As they were increased , so they sinned against me : therefore will I change their glory into shame . They eat up the sin of my people , and they set their heart on their iniquity . And there shall be , like people , like priest : and I will punish them for their ways , and reward them their doings . For they shall eat , and not have enough : they shall commit whoredom , and shall not increase : because they have left off to take heed to the LORD . Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart . My people ask counsel at their stocks , and their staff declareth unto them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err , and they have gone a whoring from under their God . They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains , and burn incense upon the hills , under oaks and poplars and elms , because the shadow thereof is good : therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom , and your spouses shall commit adultery . I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom , nor your spouses when they commit adultery : for themselves are separated with whores , and they sacrifice with harlots : therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall . Though thou , Israel , play the harlot , yet let not Judah offend ; and come not ye unto Gilgal , neither go ye up to Beth-aven , nor swear , The LORD liveth . For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer : now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place . Ephraim is joined to idols : let him alone . Their drink is sour : they have committed whoredom continually : her rulers with shame do love , Give ye . The wind hath bound her up in her wings , and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices . Hear ye this , O priests ; and hearken , ye house of Israel ; and give ye ear , O house of the king ; for judgment is toward you , because ye have been a snare on Mizpah , and a net spread upon Tabor . And the revolters are profound to make slaughter , though I have been a rebuker of them all . I know Ephraim , and Israel is not hid from me : for now , O Ephraim , thou committest whoredom , and Israel is defiled . They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God : for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them , and they have not known the LORD . 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 . 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 . They have dealt treacherously against the LORD : for they have begotten strange children : now shall a month devour them with their portions . Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah , and the trumpet in Ramah : cry aloud at Beth-aven , after thee , O Benjamin . Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be . The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound : therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water . Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment , because he willingly walked after the commandment . Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth , and to the house of Judah as rottenness . When Ephraim saw his sickness , and Judah saw his wound , then went Ephraim to the Assyrian , and sent to king Jareb : yet could he not heal you , nor cure you of your wound . For I will be unto 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 . I will go and return to my place , till they acknowledge their offence , and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early . Come , and let us return unto the LORD : for he hath torn , and he will heal us ; he hath smitten , and he will bind us up . After two days will he revive us : in the third day he will raise us up , and we shall live in his sight . Then shall we know , if we follow on to know the LORD : his going forth is prepared as the morning ; and he shall come unto us as the rain , as the latter and former rain unto the earth . O Ephraim , what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah , what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud , and as the early dew it goeth away . 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 . For I desired mercy , and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings . But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me . Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity , and is polluted with blood . And as troops of robbers wait for a man , so the company of priests murder in the way by consent : for they commit lewdness . I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel : there is the whoredom of Ephraim , Israel is defiled . Also , O Judah , he hath set an harvest for thee , when I returned the captivity of my people . When I would have healed Israel , then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered , and the wickedness of Samaria : for they commit falsehood ; and the thief cometh in , and the troop of robbers spoileth without . 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 . They make the king glad with their wickedness , and the princes with their lies . They are all adulterers , as an oven heated by the baker , who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneeded the dough , until it be leavened . In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scorners . 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 . 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 . Ephraim , he hath mixed himself among the people ; Ephraim is a cake not turned . Strangers have devoured his strength , and he knoweth it not : yea , gray hairs are here and there upon him , yet he knoweth not . 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 . Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart : they call to Egypt , they go to Assyria . 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 . 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 . And they have not cried unto me with their heart , when they howled upon their beds : they assemble themselves for corn and wine , and they rebel against me . Though I have bound and strengthened their arms , yet do they imagine mischief against me . 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 . 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 . Israel shall cry unto me , My God , we know thee . Israel hath cast off the thing that is good : the enemy shall pursue him . 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 . Thy calf , O Samaria , hath cast thee off ; mine anger is kindled against them : how long will it be ere they attain to innocency ? 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 . 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 . Israel is swallowed up : now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure . For they are gone up to Assyria , a wild ass alone by himself : Ephraim hath hired lovers . Yea , 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 . Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin , altars shall be unto him to sin . I have written to him the great things of my law , but they were counted as a strange thing . They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine 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 . For Israel hath forgotten his Maker , and buildeth temples ; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities : but I will send a fire upon his cities , and it shall devour the palaces thereof . Rejoice not , O Israel , for joy , as other people : for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor . The floor and the winepress shall not feed them , and the new wine shall fail in her . They shall not dwell in the LORD's land ; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt , and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria . 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 for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD . What will ye do in the solemn day , and in the day of the feast of the LORD ? 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 . 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 . 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 . They have deeply corrupted themselves , as in the days of Gibeah : therefore he will remember their iniquity , he will visit their sins . 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 shame ; and their abominations were according as they loved . As for Ephraim , their glory shall fly away like a bird , from the birth , and from the womb , and from the conception . 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 ! Ephraim , as I saw Tyrus , is planted in a pleasant place : but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer . Give them , O LORD : what wilt thou give ? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts . All their wickedness is in Gilgal : for there I hated them : for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house , I will love them no more : all their princes are revolters . 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 . My God will cast them away , because they did not hearken unto him : and they shall be wanderers among the nations . Israel is an empty vine , he bringeth forth fruit unto himself : according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars ; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images . Their heart is divided ; now shall they be found faulty : he shall break down their altars , he shall spoil their images . For now they shall say , We have no king , because we feared not the LORD ; what then should a king do to us ? They have spoken words , swearing falsely in making a covenant : thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field . 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 . It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb : Ephraim shall receive shame , and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel . As for Samaria , her king is cut off as the foam upon the water . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 Ephraim to ride ; Judah shall plow , and Jacob shall break his clods . Sow to yourselves in righteousness , reap in mercy ; break up your fallow ground : for it is time to seek the LORD , till he come and rain righteousness upon you . 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 . 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 . So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness : in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off . When Israel was a child , then I loved him , and called my son out of Egypt . As they called them , so they went from them : they sacrificed unto Baalim , and burned incense to graven images . I taught Ephraim also to go , taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them . 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 meat unto them . He shall not return into the land of Egypt , but the Assyrian shall be his king , because they refused to return . And the sword shall abide on his cities , and shall consume his branches , and devour them , because of their own counsels . And my people are bent to backsliding from me : though they called them to the most High , none at all would exalt him . 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 ? mine heart is turned within me , my repentings are kindled together . 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 . They shall walk after the LORD : he shall roar like a lion : when he shall roar , then the children shall tremble from the west . 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 . Ephraim compasseth me about with lies , and the house of Israel with deceit : but Judah yet ruleth with God , and is faithful with the saints . Ephraim feedeth on wind , and followeth after the east wind : he daily increaseth lies and desolation ; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians , and oil is carried into Egypt . The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah , and will punish Jacob according to his ways ; according to his doings will he recompense him . He took his brother by the heel in the womb , and by his strength he had power with God : Yea , he had power over the angel , and prevailed : he wept , and made supplication unto him : he found him in Bethel , and there he spake with us ; Even the LORD God of hosts ; the LORD is his memorial . Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment , and wait on thy God continually . He is a merchant , the balances of deceit are in his hand : he loveth to oppress . And Ephraim said , Yet I am become rich , I have found me out substance : in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin . 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 . I have also spoken by the prophets , and I have multiplied visions , and used similitudes , by the ministry of the prophets . Is there iniquity in Gilead ? surely they are vanity : they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal ; yea , their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields . And Jacob fled into the country of Syria , and Israel served for a wife , and for a wife he kept sheep . And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt , and by a prophet was he preserved . Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly : therefore shall he leave his blood upon him , and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him . When Ephraim spake trembling , he exalted himself in Israel ; but when he offended in Baal , he died . 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 the craftsmen : they say of them , Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves . 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 out of the floor , and as the smoke out of the chimney . 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 . I did know thee in the wilderness , in the land of great drought . According to their pasture , so were they filled ; they were filled , and their heart was exalted ; therefore have they forgotten me . Therefore I will be unto them as a lion : as a leopard by the way will I observe them : 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 . O Israel , thou hast destroyed thyself ; but in me is thine help . 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 ? I gave thee a king in mine anger , and took him away in my wrath . The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up ; his sin is hid . 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 . 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 mine eyes . Though he be 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 spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels . 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 . O Israel , return unto the LORD thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity . 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 . Asshur 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 . I will heal their backsliding , I will love them freely : for mine anger is turned away from him . I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily , and cast forth his roots as Lebanon . His branches shall spread , and his beauty shall be as the olive tree , and his smell as Lebanon . They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn , and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon . 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 . 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 therein .