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Hosea 7-10
New International Version
Hosea 7-10
New International Version
7 1 whenever I would heal Israel,
the sins of Ephraim are exposed
and the crimes of Samaria revealed.(A)
They practice deceit,(B)
thieves break into houses,(C)
bandits rob in the streets;(D)
2 but they do not realize
that I remember(E) all their evil deeds.(F)
Their sins engulf them;(G)
they are always before me.
3 “They delight the king with their wickedness,
the princes with their lies.(H)
4 They are all adulterers,(I)
burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
5 On the day of the festival of our king
the princes become inflamed with wine,(J)
and he joins hands with the mockers.(K)
6 Their hearts are like an oven;(L)
they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven;
they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,(M)
and none of them calls(N) on me.
8 “Ephraim mixes(O) with the nations;
Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
9 Foreigners sap his strength,(P)
but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
but he does not notice.
10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him,(Q)
but despite all this
he does not return(R) to the Lord his God
or search(S) for him.
11 “Ephraim is like a dove,(T)
easily deceived and senseless—
now calling to Egypt,(U)
now turning to Assyria.(V)
12 When they go, I will throw my net(W) over them;
I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
I will catch them.
13 Woe(X) to them,
because they have strayed(Y) from me!
Destruction to them,
because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
but they speak about me(Z) falsely.(AA)
14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts(AB)
but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,[a] appealing to their gods
for grain and new wine,(AC)
but they turn away from me.(AD)
15 I trained(AE) them and strengthened their arms,
but they plot evil(AF) against me.
16 They do not turn to the Most High;(AG)
they are like a faulty bow.(AH)
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of their insolent(AI) words.
For this they will be ridiculed(AJ)
in the land of Egypt.(AK)
Israel to Reap the Whirlwind
8 “Put the trumpet(AL) to your lips!
An eagle(AM) is over the house of the Lord
because the people have broken my covenant(AN)
and rebelled against my law.(AO)
2 Israel cries out to me,
‘Our God, we acknowledge you!’
3 But Israel has rejected what is good;
an enemy will pursue him.(AP)
4 They set up kings without my consent;
they choose princes without my approval.(AQ)
With their silver and gold
they make idols(AR) for themselves
to their own destruction.
5 Samaria, throw out your calf-idol!(AS)
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of purity?(AT)
6 They are from Israel!
This calf—a metalworker has made it;
it is not God.(AU)
It will be broken in pieces,
that calf(AV) of Samaria.(AW)
7 “They sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.(AX)
The stalk has no head;
it will produce no flour.(AY)
Were it to yield grain,
foreigners would swallow it up.(AZ)
8 Israel is swallowed up;(BA)
now she is among the nations
like something no one wants.(BB)
9 For they have gone up to Assyria(BC)
like a wild donkey(BD) wandering alone.
Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.(BE)
10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
I will now gather them together.(BF)
They will begin to waste away(BG)
under the oppression of the mighty king.
11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
these have become altars for sinning.(BH)
12 I wrote for them the many things of my law,
but they regarded them as something foreign.(BI)
13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me,
and though they eat(BJ) the meat,
the Lord is not pleased with them.(BK)
Now he will remember(BL) their wickedness
and punish their sins:(BM)
They will return to Egypt.(BN)
14 Israel has forgotten(BO) their Maker(BP)
and built palaces;
Judah has fortified many towns.
But I will send fire on their cities
that will consume their fortresses.”(BQ)
Punishment for Israel
9 Do not rejoice, Israel;
do not be jubilant(BR) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful(BS) to your God;
you love the wages of a prostitute(BT)
at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine(BU) will fail them.
3 They will not remain(BV) in the Lord’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt(BW)
and eat unclean food in Assyria.(BX)
4 They will not pour out wine offerings(BY) to the Lord,
nor will their sacrifices please(BZ) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(CA)
all who eat them will be unclean.(CB)
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(CC)
5 What will you do(CD) on the day of your appointed festivals,(CE)
on the feast days of the Lord?
6 Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,(CF)
and Memphis(CG) will bury them.(CH)
Their treasures of silver(CI) will be taken over by briers,
and thorns(CJ) will overrun their tents.
7 The days of punishment(CK) are coming,
the days of reckoning(CL) are at hand.
Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(CM) are so many
and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(CN)
the inspired person a maniac.(CO)
8 The prophet, along with my God,
is the watchman over Ephraim,[b]
yet snares(CP) await him on all his paths,
and hostility in the house of his God.(CQ)
9 They have sunk deep into corruption,(CR)
as in the days of Gibeah.(CS)
God will remember(CT) their wickedness
and punish them for their sins.(CU)
10 “When I found Israel,
it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
it was like seeing the early fruit(CV) on the fig(CW) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(CX)
they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(CY)
and became as vile as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory(CZ) will fly away like a bird(DA)—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.(DB)
12 Even if they rear children,
I will bereave(DC) them of every one.
Woe(DD) to them
when I turn away from them!(DE)
13 I have seen Ephraim,(DF) like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place.(DG)
But Ephraim will bring out
their children to the slayer.”(DH)
14 Give them, Lord—
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.(DI)
15 “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,(DJ)
I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,(DK)
I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;(DL)
all their leaders are rebellious.(DM)
16 Ephraim(DN) is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.(DO)
Even if they bear children,
I will slay(DP) their cherished offspring.”
17 My God will reject(DQ) them
because they have not obeyed(DR) him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.(DS)
10 Israel was a spreading vine;(DT)
he brought forth fruit for himself.
As his fruit increased,
he built more altars;(DU)
as his land prospered,(DV)
he adorned his sacred stones.(DW)
2 Their heart is deceitful,(DX)
and now they must bear their guilt.(DY)
The Lord will demolish their altars(DZ)
and destroy their sacred stones.(EA)
3 Then they will say, “We have no king
because we did not revere the Lord.
But even if we had a king,
what could he do for us?”
4 They make many promises,
take false oaths(EB)
and make agreements;(EC)
therefore lawsuits spring up
like poisonous weeds(ED) in a plowed field.
5 The people who live in Samaria fear
for the calf-idol(EE) of Beth Aven.[c](EF)
Its people will mourn over it,
and so will its idolatrous priests,(EG)
those who had rejoiced over its splendor,
because it is taken from them into exile.(EH)
6 It will be carried to Assyria(EI)
as tribute(EJ) for the great king.(EK)
Ephraim will be disgraced;(EL)
Israel will be ashamed(EM) of its foreign alliances.
7 Samaria’s king will be destroyed,(EN)
swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
8 The high places(EO) of wickedness[d](EP) will be destroyed—
it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns(EQ) and thistles will grow up
and cover their altars.(ER)
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”(ES)
and to the hills, “Fall on us!”(ET)
9 “Since the days of Gibeah,(EU) you have sinned,(EV) Israel,
and there you have remained.[e]
Will not war again overtake
the evildoers in Gibeah?
10 When I please, I will punish(EW) them;
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bonds for their double sin.
11 Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke(EX)
on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
Judah must plow,
and Jacob must break up the ground.
12 Sow(EY) righteousness(EZ) for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;(FA)
for it is time to seek(FB) the Lord,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness(FC) on you.
13 But you have planted wickedness,
you have reaped evil,(FD)
you have eaten the fruit of deception.(FE)
Because you have depended on your own strength
and on your many warriors,(FF)
14 the roar of battle will rise against your people,
so that all your fortresses will be devastated(FG)—
as Shalman(FH) devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.(FI)
15 So will it happen to you, Bethel,
because your wickedness is great.
When that day dawns,
the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.(FJ)
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts They gather together
- Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God
- Hosea 10:5 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).
- Hosea 10:8 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see verse 5.
- Hosea 10:9 Or there a stand was taken
Hosea 7-10
King James Version
Hosea 7-10
King James Version
7 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.
2 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.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 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; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 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 pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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.
13 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.
14 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 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 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.
2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
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 them idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
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.
7 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.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10 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.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 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.
14 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.
9 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.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 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.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
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.
7 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.
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 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 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 Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 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!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 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.
16 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.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
10 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.
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 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 as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: 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.
6 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.
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
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.
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 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
Hosea 7-10
New King James Version
Hosea 7-10
New King James Version
Israel Has Rebelled Against God
7 “When I would have healed Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria.
For (A)they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in;
A band of robbers [a]takes spoil outside.
2 They [b]do not consider in their hearts
That (B)I remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.
3 They make a (C)king glad with their wickedness,
And princes (D)with their lies.
4 “They(E) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
5 In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [c]inflamed with (F)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
6 They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
[d]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
(G)None among them calls upon Me.
8 “Ephraim (H)has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.
9 (I)Aliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.
10 And the (J)pride of Israel testifies to his face,
But (K)they do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.
Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 “Ephraim(L) also is like a silly dove, without [e]sense—
(M)They call to Egypt,
They go to (N)Assyria.
12 Wherever they go, I will (O)spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
(P)According to what their congregation has heard.
13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though (Q)I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
14 (R)They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
“They [f]assemble together for grain and new (S)wine,
[g]They rebel against Me;
15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;
16 They return, but not [h]to the Most High;
(T)They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the (U)cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (V)in the land of Egypt.
The Apostasy of Israel
8 “Set the [i]trumpet to your mouth!
He shall come (W)like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
2 (X)Israel will cry to Me,
‘My God, (Y)we know You!’
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 “They(Z) set up kings, but not by Me;
They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.
From their silver and gold
They made idols for themselves—
That they might be cut off.
5 Your [j]calf [k]is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—
(AA)How long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this:
A (AB)workman made it, and it is not God;
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7 “They(AC) sow the wind,
And reap the whirlwind.
The stalk has no bud;
It shall never produce meal.
If it should produce,
(AD)Aliens would swallow it up.
8 (AE)Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
(AF)Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like (AG)a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim (AH)has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now (AI)I will gather them;
And they shall [l]sorrow a little,
Because of the [m]burden of (AJ)the king of princes.
11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,
They have become for him altars for sinning.
12 I have written for him (AK)the great things of My law,
But they were considered a strange thing.
13 For the sacrifices of My offerings (AL)they sacrifice flesh and eat it,
(AM)But the Lord does not accept them.
(AN)Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
They shall return to Egypt.
14 “For(AO) Israel has forgotten (AP)his Maker,
And has built [n]temples;
Judah also has multiplied (AQ)fortified cities;
But (AR)I will send fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour his [o]palaces.”
Judgment of Israel’s Sin
9 Do(AS) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for (AT)hire on every threshing floor.
2 The threshing floor and the winepress
Shall not feed them,
And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in (AU)the Lord’s land,
(AV)But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And (AW)shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
Nor (AX)shall their (AY)sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
It shall be like bread of mourners to them;
All who eat it shall be defiled.
For their bread shall be for their own life;
It shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
(AZ)Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.
7 The (BA)days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a (BB)fool,
(BC)The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8 The (BD)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a [p]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
9 (BE)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of (BF)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the (BG)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the (BH)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to (BI)Baal Peor,
And [q]separated themselves to that shame;
(BJ)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, (BK)woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just (BL)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them (BM)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!
15 “All their wickedness is in (BN)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
(BO)All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is (BP)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 My God will (BQ)cast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be (BR)wanderers among the nations.
Israel’s Sin and Captivity
10 Israel (BS)empties his vine;
He brings forth fruit for himself.
According to the multitude of his fruit
(BT)He has increased the altars;
According to the bounty of his land
They have embellished his sacred pillars.
2 Their heart is (BU)divided;[r]
Now they are held guilty.
He will break down their altars;
He will ruin their sacred pillars.
3 For now they say,
“We have no king,
Because we did not fear the Lord.
And as for a king, what would he do for us?”
4 They have spoken words,
Swearing falsely in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up (BV)like hemlock in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the (BW)calf[s] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And [t]its priests shriek for it—
Because its (BX)glory has departed from it.
6 The idol also shall be carried to Assyria
As a present for King (BY)Jareb.
Ephraim shall receive shame,
And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off
Like a twig on the water.
8 Also the (BZ)high places of [u]Aven, (CA)the sin of Israel,
Shall be destroyed.
The thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars;
(CB)They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
9 “O Israel, you have sinned from the days of (CC)Gibeah;
There they stood.
The (CD)battle in Gibeah against the children of [v]iniquity
Did not [w]overtake them.
10 When it is My desire, I will chasten them.
(CE)Peoples shall be gathered against them
When I bind them [x]for their two transgressions.
11 Ephraim is (CF)a trained heifer
That loves to thresh grain;
But I harnessed her fair neck,
I will make Ephraim [y]pull a plow.
Judah shall plow;
Jacob shall break his clods.”
12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy;
(CG)Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord,
Till He (CH)comes and rains righteousness on you.
13 (CI)You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped iniquity.
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
Because you trusted in your own way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.
14 Therefore tumult shall arise among your people,
And all your fortresses shall be plundered
As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle—
A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
Because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel
Shall be cut off utterly.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:1 plunders
- Hosea 7:2 Lit. do not say to
- Hosea 7:5 Lit. with the heat of
- Hosea 7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim
- Hosea 7:11 Lit. heart
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from Me
- Hosea 7:16 Or upward
- Hosea 8:1 ram’s horn, Heb. shophar
- Hosea 8:5 Golden calf image
- Hosea 8:5 Or has rejected you
- Hosea 8:10 Or begin to diminish
- Hosea 8:10 Or oracle or proclamation
- Hosea 8:14 Or palaces
- Hosea 8:14 Or citadels
- Hosea 9:8 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
- Hosea 9:10 Or dedicated
- Hosea 10:2 Divided in loyalty
- Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
- Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
- Hosea 10:8 Lit. Idolatry or Wickedness
- Hosea 10:9 So with many Heb. mss., LXX, Vg.; MT unruliness
- Hosea 10:9 Or overcome
- Hosea 10:10 Or in their two habitations
- Hosea 10:11 Lit. to ride
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