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Title:       Old Testament, The
Book:        Hosea
Author:      Various
Date:        1885

Chapter 13

     When Ephraim ^2 spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel;
but when he ^3 offended in Baal, he died.  And now they sin more and more, and
have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their
own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them,
Let ^4 the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.  Therefore they shall be as the
morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is
driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of
the chimney.

[Footnote 2: Or, spake with trembling &c.]

[Footnote 3: Or, became guilty]

[Footnote 4: Or, the sacrificers of men]

     Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; and thou ^5 shalt know
no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour.  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 am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I
watch by the way; 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
lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

[Footnote 5: Or, knowest]

     ^6 It is thy destruction, O Israel, ^7 that thou art against me, against
thy help.  Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and
thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?  I have given
thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.  The iniquity
of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.  The sorrows of a
travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; ^8 for it is time
he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.  I will
ransom them from the ^9 power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O
death, ^10 where are thy plagues?  O Sheol, ^10 where is thy destrurtion?
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

[Footnote 6: Or, Thou art destroyed, O Israel; for thou &c.]

[Footnote 7: Or, for in me, in thy help - Or, but in me is thy help]

[Footnote 8: Or, when it is time, he standeth not in &c.]

[Footnote 9: Heb. hand.]

[Footnote 10: Or, I will be]

     Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the
^11 breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall
become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: ^12 he shall make spoil of the
treasure of all goodly vessels.  Samaria shall ^13 bear her guilt; 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.

[Footnote 11: Or, wind]

[Footnote 12: Or, it]

[Footnote 13: Or, become desolate]