1 The word of the Lord that came unto Ho-se′-a, the son of Beer′-i, in the days of Uz-zi′-ah, Jo′-tham, A′-haz, and Hez-e-ki′-ah, kings of Ju′-dah, and in the days of Jer-o-bo′-am the son of Jo′-ash, king of Is′-ra-el.
2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Ho-se′-a. And the Lord said to Ho-se′-a, a Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for b the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
3 So he went and took Go′-mer the daughter of Dib-la′-im; which conceived, and bare him a son.
4 And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jez′-reel; for yet a little while, c and I will avenge the blood of Jez′-reel upon the house of Je′-hu, d and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Is′-ra-el.
5 e And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Is′-ra-el in the valley of Jez′-reel.
6 ¶ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo–ru-ha′-mah: f for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Is′-ra-el; but I will utterly take them away.
7 g But I will have mercy upon the house of Ju′-dah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and h will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo–ru-ha′-mah, she conceived, and bare a son.
9 Then said God, Call his name Lo–am′-mi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10 ¶ Yet the i number of the children of Is′-ra-el shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; j and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, k Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are l the sons of the living God.
11 m Then shall the children of Ju′-dah and the children of Is′-ra-el be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jez′-reel.
2Say ye unto your brethren, Am′-mi; and to your sisters, Ru–ha′-mah.
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for a she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her b whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest c I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was d born, and make her e as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with f thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the g children of whoredoms.
5 h For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, i that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 ¶ Therefore, behold, j I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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, k I will go and return to my l first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
8 For she did not m know that n I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Ba′-al.
9 Therefore will I return, and o 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.
10 And now p will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 q I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her r feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, s whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and t I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Ba′-a-lim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she u decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
14 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and v bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the w valley of A′-chor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in x the days of her youth, and a as in the day when she came up out of the land of E′-gypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ish′-i; and shalt call me no more Ba′-a-li.
17 For b I will take away the names of Ba′-a-lim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a c covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and d I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to e lie down safely.
19 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.
20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and f thou shalt know the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, g I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; h and they shall hear Jez′-reel.
23 And i I will sow her unto me in the earth; j and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I k will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
3 Then said the Lord unto me, l Go yet, love a woman beloved of her m friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Is′-ra-el, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an ho′-mer of barley, and an half ho′-mer of barley:
3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt n 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.
4 ¶ For the children of Is′-ra-el shall abide many days o without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an p e′-phod, and without q ter′-a-phim:
5 Afterward shall the children of Is′-ra-el return, and r seek the Lord their God, and s Da′-vid their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the t latter days.
4Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Is′-ra-el: for the Lord hath a u controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, a nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore b shall the land mourn, and c 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.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they d that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall e in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6 ¶ f 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.
7 g As they were increased, so they sinned against me: h therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, i like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 For j 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.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine k take away the heart.
12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their l stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for m the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 n 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: o therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 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 p doth not understand shall fall.
15 ¶ Though thou, Is′-ra-el, play the harlot, yet let not Ju′-dah offend; q and come not ye unto Gil′-gal, neither go ye up to r Beth–a′-ven, s nor swear, The Lord liveth.
16 For Is′-ra-el t slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 E′-phra-im is joined to idols; u let him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: aher rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
19 bThe wind hath bound her up in her wings, and cthey shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
5Hear 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 dye have been a snare on Miz′-pah, and a net spread upon Ta′-bor.
2 And the revolters are eprofound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3 fI know E′-phra-im, and Is′-ra-el is not hid from me: for now, O E′-phra-im, gthou committest whoredom, and Is′-ra-el is defiled.
4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for hthe spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
5 And ithe pride of Is′-ra-el doth testify to his face: therefore shall Is′-ra-el and E′-phra-im fall in their iniquity: Ju′-dah also shall fall with them.
6 jThey 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.
7 They have kdealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall la month devour them with their portions.
8 mBlow ye the cornet in Gib′-e-ah, and the trumpet in Ra′-mah: ncry aloud at oBeth–a′-ven, pafter thee, O Ben′-ja-min.
9 E′-phra-im shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Is′-ra-el have I made known that which shall surely be.
10 The princes of Ju′-dah were like them that qremove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11 E′-phra-im ris oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after sthe commandment.
12 Therefore will I be unto E′-phra-im as a moth, and to the house of Ju′-dah tas rottenness.
13 When E′-phra-im saw his sickness, and Ju′-dah saw his uwound, then went E′-phra-im vto the As-syr′-i-an, wand sent to king Jar′-eb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14 For xI will be unto E′-phra-im as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Ju′-dah: yI, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
15 ¶ I will go and return to my place, till zthey acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: aain their affliction they will seek me early.
6Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for a he hath torn, and b he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 c After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3 d Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared e as the morning; and f he shall come unto us g as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4 ¶ h O E′-phra-im, what shall I do unto thee? O Ju′-dah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is i as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them j by the prophets; I have slain them by k the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For I desired l mercy, and m not sacrifice; and the n knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men o have transgressed the covenant: p there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 q Gil′-e-ad is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, r so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen s an horrible thing in the house of Is′-ra-el: there is t the whoredom of E′-phra-im, Is′-ra-el is defiled.
11 Also, O Ju′-dah, u he hath set an harvest for thee, v when I returned the captivity of my people.
7 When I would have healed Is′-ra-el, then the iniquity of E′-phra-im was discovered, and the wickedness of Sa-mar′-i-a: for w they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I x remember all their wickedness: now y their own doings have beset them about; they are z before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes aa with their lies.
4 ab 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 princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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; ac all their kings ad are fallen: ae there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 E′-phra-im, he af hath mixed himself among the people; E′-phra-im is a cake not turned.
9 ag 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 a pride of Is′-ra-el testifieth to his face: and b they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
11 ¶ c E′-phra-im also is like a silly dove without heart: d they call to E′-gypt, they go to As-syr′-i-a.
12 When they shall go, e I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, f 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 g I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 h 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.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 i They return, but not to the most High: j they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the k rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision l in the land of E′-gypt.
8Set m the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come n as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because o they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2 p Is′-ra-el shall cry unto me, My God, q we know thee.
3 Is′-ra-el hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4 r They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: s of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5 ¶ Thy calf, O Sa-mar′-i-a, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: t how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6 For from Is′-ra-el was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Sa-mar′-i-a shall be broken in pieces.
7 For u 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 v strangers shall swallow it up.
8 w Is′-ra-el is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gen′-tiles x as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For y they are gone up to As-syr′-i-a, z a wild ass alone by himself: E′-phra-im aa hath hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now ab will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of ac the king of princes.
11 Because E′-phra-im hath made ad many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him athe great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 bThey sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; cbut the Lord accepteth them not; dnow will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: ethey shall return to E′-gypt.
14 fFor Is′-ra-el hath forgotten ghis Maker, and hbuildeth temples; and Ju′-dah hath multiplied fenced cities: but iI will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
9 Rejoice not, O Is′-ra-el, for joy, as other people: for thou jhast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a kreward upon every cornfloor.
2 lThe floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the mLord's land; nbut E′-phra-im shall return to E′-gypt, and othey shall eat unclean things pin As-syr′-i-a.
4 qThey shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, rneither shall they be pleasing unto him: stheir sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread tfor their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will ye do in uthe solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: vE′-gypt shall gather them up, Mem′-phis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, wnettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Is′-ra-el shall know it: the prophet is a fool, xthe spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The ywatchman of E′-phra-im 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 zThey have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of aaGib′-e-ah: abtherefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Is′-ra-el like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as acthe firstripe in the fig tree adat her first time: but they went to aeBa′-al–pe′-or, and afseparated themselves agunto that shame; ahand their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for E′-phra-im, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 aiThough they bring up their children, yet ajwill I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, akwoe also to them when I aldepart from them!
13 E′-phra-im, amas I saw Ty′-rus, is planted in a pleasant place: anbut E′-phra-im shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness b is in Gil′-gal: for there I hated them: c for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: d all their princes are revolters.
16 E′-phra-im is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, e 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 f wanderers among the nations.
10Is′-ra-el is g an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit h he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land i they have made goodly images.
2 Their heart is j divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 k For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared 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 l as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Sa-mar′-i-a shall fear because of m the calves of n Beth–a′-ven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, o for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
6 It shall be also carried unto As-syr′-i-a for a present to p king Jar′-eb: E′-phra-im shall receive shame, and Is′-ra-el shall be ashamed q of his own counsel.
7 r As for Sa-mar′-i-a, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
8 s The high places also of A′-ven, t the sin of Is′-ra-el, shall be destroyed: u the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; v and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
9 w O Is′-ra-el, thou hast sinned from the days of Gib′-e-ah: there they stood: x the battle in Gib′-e-ah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
10 y It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and z the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
11 And E′-phra-im is as a an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make E′-phra-im to ride; Ju′-dah shall plow, and Ja′-cob shall break his clods.
12 b Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; c break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 d 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.
14 e Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shal′-man spoiled f Beth–ar′-bel in the day of battle: g 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 h shall the king of Is′-ra-el utterly be cut off.
11 When i Is′-ra-el was a child, then I loved him, and j called my k son out of E′-gypt.
2 As they called them, so they went from them: l they sacrificed unto Ba′-a-lim, and burned incense to graven images.
3 m I taught E′-phra-im also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that n I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and o I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and p I laid meat unto them.
5 ¶ q He shall not return into the land of E′-gypt, but the As-syr′-i-an shall be his king, r because they refused to return.
6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, s because of their own counsels.
7 And my people are bent to t backsliding from me: u though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
8 v How shall I give thee up, E′-phra-im? how shall I deliver thee, Is′-ra-el? how shall I make thee as w Ad′-mah? how shall I set thee as Ze-bo′-im? x mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy E′-phra-im: y for I am God, and not man; the Ho′-ly One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
10 They shall walk after the Lord: a he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble b from the west.
11 They shall tremble as a bird out of E′-gypt, c and as a dove out of the land of As-syr′-i-a: d and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.
12 e E′-phra-im compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Is′-ra-el with deceit: but Ju′-dah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
12 E′-phra-im f feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; g and they do make a covenant with the As-syr′-i-ans, and h oil is carried into E′-gypt.
2 i The Lord hath also a controversy with Ju′-dah, and will punish Ja′-cob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3 ¶ He took his brother j by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he k had power with God:
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in l Beth′–el, and there he spake with us;
5 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his m memorial.
6 n Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and o wait on thy God continually.
7 ¶ He is a merchant, p the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
8 And E′-phra-im said, q 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.
9 And r I that am the Lord thy God from the land of E′-gypt s will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10 t I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 u Is there iniquity in Gil′-e-ad? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in v Gil′-gal; yea, w their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Ja′-cob x fled into the country of Syr′-i-a, and Is′-ra-el y served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 z And by a prophet the Lord brought Is′-ra-el out of E′-gypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 aa E′-phra-im provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, ab and his ac reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
13 When E′-phra-im spake trembling, he exalted himself in Is′-ra-el; but ad when he offended in Ba′-al, he died.
2 And now they sin more and more, and ae 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 akiss the calves.
3 Therefore they shall be bas the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, cas the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4 Yet dI am the Lord thy God from the land of E′-gypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for ethere is no saviour beside me.
5 ¶ fI did know thee in the wilderness, gin the land of great drought.
6 hAccording to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore ihave they forgotten me.
7 Therefore jI will be unto them as a lion: as ka leopard by the way will I observe them:
8 I will meet them las 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.
9 ¶ O Is′-ra-el, mthou hast destroyed thyself; nbut in me is thine help.
10 I will be thy king: owhere is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom pthou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
11 qI gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
12 rThe iniquity of E′-phra-im is bound up; his sin is hid.
13 sThe sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is tan unwise son; for he should not ustay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
14 vI will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: wO death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: xrepentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15 ¶ Though yhe be fruitful among his brethren, zan 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.
16 Sa-mar′-i-a shall become desolate; aafor she hath rebelled against her God: abthey shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
14 O Is′-ra-el, acreturn unto the Lord thy God; adfor 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 aecalves of our lips.
3 afAssh′-ur shall not save us; agwe will not ride upon horses: ahneither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: aifor in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
4 I will heal ajtheir backsliding, I will love them akfreely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as althe dew unto Is′-ra-el: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Leb′-a-non.
6 His branches shall spread, and amhis beauty shall be as the olive tree, and anhis smell as Leb′-a-non.
7 aoThey 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 Leb′-a-non.
8 E′-phra-im shall say, a What have I to do any more with idols? b I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. c From me is thy fruit found.
9 d Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for e the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.