10 When it is My desire, I will chasten them.
(A)Peoples shall be gathered against them
When I bind them [a]for their two transgressions.

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  1. Hosea 10:10 Or in their two habitations

10 When I please, I will punish(A) them;
    nations will be gathered against them
    to put them in bonds for their double sin.

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13 ‘Thus shall My anger (A)be spent, and I will (B)cause My fury to rest upon them, (C)and I will be avenged; (D)and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.

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13 “Then my anger will cease and my wrath(A) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.(B) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.(C)

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And it shall be: (A)like people, like priest.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And [a]reward them for their deeds.

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  1. Hosea 4:9 repay

And it will be: Like people, like priests.(A)
    I will punish both of them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.(B)

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16 “Behold, I will send for many (A)fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)

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But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out (A)his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

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The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers(A) and burned their city.

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For (A)I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses [a]rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.

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  1. Zechariah 14:2 Or plundered

I will gather all the nations(A) to Jerusalem to fight against it;(B) the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.(C) Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.(D) Then the Lord will go out and fight(E) against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle.(F)

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10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (A)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (B)Lord will (C)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

11 (D)Now also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye (E)look upon Zion.”
12 But they do not know (F)the thoughts of the Lord,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
For He will gather them (G)like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 “Arise(H) and (I)thresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hooves bronze;
You shall (J)beat in pieces many peoples;
(K)I will consecrate their gain to the Lord,
And their substance to (L)the Lord of the whole earth.”

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10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

11 But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat(C) over Zion!”
12 But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(D)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 “Rise and thresh,(E) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”(F)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,(G)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now (A)I will gather them;
And they shall [a]sorrow a little,
Because of the [b]burden of (B)the king of princes.

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  1. Hosea 8:10 Or begin to diminish
  2. Hosea 8:10 Or oracle or proclamation

10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them together.(A)
They will begin to waste away(B)
    under the oppression of the mighty king.

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The Apostasy of Israel

Set the [a]trumpet to your mouth!
He shall come (A)like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.

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  1. Hosea 8:1 ram’s horn, Heb. shophar

Israel to Reap the Whirlwind

“Put the trumpet(A) to your lips!
    An eagle(B) is over the house of the Lord
because the people have broken my covenant(C)
    and rebelled against my law.(D)

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46 “For thus says the Lord God: (A)‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.

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46 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring a mob(A) against them and give them over to terror and plunder.(B)

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“Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the (A)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.

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“Therefore I delivered her into the hands(A) of her lovers,(B) the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.(C)

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42 So (A)I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more.

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42 Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.(A)

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37 surely, therefore, (A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

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37 therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip(A) you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.(B)

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