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{\MT HOSEA.



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\MM \VerseOne{1}{\SC{The}} word of the
{\SC{Lord}} that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
{\ADD{and}} Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

\VS{2}The beginning of the word of the
{\SC{Lord}} by Hosea. And the
{\SC{Lord}} said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom,
{\ADD{departing}} from the
{\SC{Lord}}.

\VS{3}So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

\VS{4}And the
{\SC{Lord}} said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little
{\ADD{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.

\VS{5}And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

\VS{6}And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And
{\ADD{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.

\VS{7}But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the
{\SC{Lord}} their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

\VS{8}Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

\VS{9}Then said
{\ADD{God}}, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye
{\ADD{are}} not my people, and I will not be your
{\ADD{God}}.

\VS{10}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,
{\ADD{that}} in the place where it was said unto them, Ye
{\ADD{are}} not my people,
{\ADD{there}} it shall be said unto them,
{\ADD{Ye are}} the sons of the living God.

\VS{11}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
{\ADD{shall be}} the day of Jezreel.




\par }\PoetryChap{2}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi;

\par }{\Q And to your sisters, Ruhamah.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Plead with your mother, plead:

\par }{\Q For she
{\ADD{is}} not my wife, neither
{\ADD{am}} I her husband:

\par }{\Q Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,

\par }{\Q And her adulteries from between her breasts;


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Lest I strip her naked, and set her as
{\ADD{in}} the day that she was born,

\par }{\Q And make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land,

\par }{\Q And slay her with thirst.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And I will not have mercy upon her children;

\par }{\Q For they
{\ADD{be the}} children of whoredoms.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For their mother hath played the harlot:

\par }{\Q She that conceived them hath done shamefully:

\par }{\Q For she said, I will go after my lovers,

\par }{\Q That give
{\ADD{me}} my bread and my water,

\par }{\Q My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,

\par }{\Q And make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them;

\par }{\Q And she shall seek them, but shall not find
{\ADD{them:}}

\par }{\Q Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband;

\par }{\Q For then
{\ADD{was it}} better with me than now.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,

\par }{\Q And multiplied her silver and gold,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Which}} they prepared for Baal.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Therefore will I return, and take
{\ADD{away}} my corn in the time thereof,

\par }{\Q And my wine in the season thereof,

\par }{\Q And will recover my wool and my flax
{\ADD{given}} to cover her nakedness.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

\par }{\Q And none shall deliver her out of mine hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}I will also cause all her mirth to cease,

\par }{\Q Her feast
{\ADD{days}}, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,

\par }{\Q Where{\ADD{of}} she hath said, These
{\ADD{are}} my rewards that my lovers have given me:

\par }{\Q And I will make them a forest,

\par }{\Q And the beasts of the field shall eat them.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, where{\ADD{in}} she burnt incense to them,

\par }{\Q And she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,

\par }{\Q And she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Therefore behold, I
{\ADD{will}} allure her,

\par }{\Q And bring her
{\ADD{into}} the wilderness,

\par }{\Q And speak comfortably unto her.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And I will give her her vineyards from thence,

\par }{\Q And the valley of Achor for a door of hope:

\par }{\Q And she shall sing there, as
{\ADD{in}} the days of her youth,

\par }{\Q And as
{\ADD{in}} the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And it shall be at that day, saith the
{\SC{Lord}},
{\ADD{that}} thou shalt call
{\ADD{me}} Ishi;

\par }{\Q And shalt call me no more Baali.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,

\par }{\Q And they shall no more be remembered by their name.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,

\par }{\Q And with the fowls of heaven, and
{\ADD{with}} the creeping things of the ground:

\par }{\Q And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,

\par }{\Q And will make them to lie down safely.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And I will betroth thee unto me for ever;

\par }{\Q Yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment,

\par }{\Q And in lovingkindness, and in mercies.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:

\par }{\Q And thou shalt know the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And it shall come to pass in that day,

\par }{\Q I will hear, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}, I will hear the heavens,

\par }{\Q And they shall hear the earth;


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;

\par }{\Q And they shall hear Jezreel.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And I will sow her unto me in the earth;

\par }{\Q And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy;

\par }{\Q And I will say to
{\ADD{them which were}} not my people, Thou
{\ADD{art}} my people;

\par }{\Q And they shall say,
{\ADD{Thou art}} my God.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then said the
{\SC{Lord}} unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of
{\ADD{her}} friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the
{\SC{Lord}} toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

\VS{2}So I bought her to me for fifteen
{\ADD{pieces}} of silver, and
{\ADD{for}} a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

\VS{3}and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for
{\ADD{another}} man: so
{\ADD{will}} I also
{\ADD{be}} for thee.

\VS{4}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
{\ADD{without}} teraphim:

\VS{5}afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the
{\SC{Lord}} their God, and David their king; and shall fear the
{\SC{Lord}} and his goodness in the latter days.




\par }\PoetryChap{4}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Hear the word of the
{\SC{Lord}}, ye children of Israel:

\par }{\Q For the
{\SC{Lord}} hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,

\par }{\Q Because
{\ADD{there is}} no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,

\par }{\Q And blood toucheth blood.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Therefore shall the land mourn,

\par }{\Q And every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,

\par }{\Q With the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven;

\par }{\Q Yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another:

\par }{\Q For thy people
{\ADD{are}} as they that strive with the priest.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Therefore shalt thou fall
{\ADD{in}} the day,

\par }{\Q And the prophet also shall fall with thee
{\ADD{in}} the night,

\par }{\Q And I will destroy thy mother.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,

\par }{\Q Because thou hast rejected knowledge,

\par }{\Q I will also reject thee, that
{\ADD{thou}} shalt be no priest to me:

\par }{\Q Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,

\par }{\Q I will also forget thy children.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}As they were increased, so they sinned against me:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Therefore}} will I change their glory into shame.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}They eat
{\ADD{up}} the sin of my people,

\par }{\Q And they set their heart on their iniquity.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And there shall be, like people, like priest:

\par }{\Q And I will punish them for their ways,

\par }{\Q And reward them their doings.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}For they shall eat, and not have enough:

\par }{\Q They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:

\par }{\Q Because they have left off to take heed to the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Whoredom and wine and new wine take
{\ADD{away}} the heart.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}My people ask
{\ADD{counsel}} at their stocks,

\par }{\Q And their staff declareth unto them:

\par }{\Q For the spirit of whoredoms hath caused
{\ADD{them}} to err,

\par }{\Q And they have gone a whoring from under their God.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,

\par }{\Q And burn incense upon the hills,

\par }{\Q Under oaks and poplars and elms,

\par }{\Q Because the shadow thereof
{\ADD{is}} good:

\par }{\Q Therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom,

\par }{\Q And your spouses shall commit adultery.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom,

\par }{\Q Nor your spouses when they commit adultery:

\par }{\Q For themselves are separated with whores,

\par }{\Q And they sacrifice with harlots:

\par }{\Q Therefore the people
{\ADD{that}} doth not understand shall fall.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}Though thou, Israel, play the harlot,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Yet}} let not Judah offend;

\par }{\Q And come not ye
{\ADD{unto}} Gilgal,

\par }{\Q Neither go ye up
{\ADD{to}} Beth-aven,

\par }{\Q Nor swear, The
{\SC{Lord}} liveth.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer:

\par }{\Q Now the
{\SC{Lord}} will feed them as a lamb in a large place.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Ephraim
{\ADD{is}} joined to idols:

\par }{\Q Let him alone.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Their drink is sour; they have committed whoredom continually:

\par }{\Q Her rulers
{\ADD{with}} shame do love, Give ye.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The wind hath bound her up in her wings,

\par }{\Q And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{5}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Hear ye this, O priests;

\par }{\Q And hearken, ye house of Israel;

\par }{\Q And give ye ear, O house of the king;

\par }{\Q For judgment
{\ADD{is}} toward you,

\par }{\Q Because ye have been a snare on Mizpah,

\par }{\Q And a net spread upon Tabor.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,

\par }{\Q Though I
{\ADD{have been}} a rebuker of them all.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:

\par }{\Q For now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom,
{\ADD{and}} Israel is defiled.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:

\par }{\Q For the spirit of whoredoms
{\ADD{is}} in the midst of them,

\par }{\Q And they have not known the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face:

\par }{\Q Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;

\par }{\Q Judah also shall fall with them.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the
{\SC{Lord}};

\par }{\Q But they shall not find
{\ADD{him;}} he hath withdrawn himself from them.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}They have dealt treacherously against the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q For they have begotten strange children:

\par }{\Q Now shall a month devour them with their portions.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} the trumpet in Ramah:

\par }{\Q Cry aloud
{\ADD{at}} Beth-aven,

\par }{\Q After thee, O Benjamin.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:

\par }{\Q Among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Therefore}} I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Ephraim
{\ADD{is}} oppressed
{\ADD{and}} broken in judgment,

\par }{\Q Because he willingly walked after the commandment.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Therefore
{\ADD{will}} I
{\ADD{be}} unto Ephraim as a moth,

\par }{\Q And to the house of Judah as rottenness.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}When Ephraim saw his sickness,

\par }{\Q And Judah
{\ADD{saw}} his wound,

\par }{\Q Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian,

\par }{\Q And sent to king Jareb:

\par }{\Q Yet could he not heal you,

\par }{\Q Nor cure you of your wound.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For I
{\ADD{will be}} unto Ephraim as a lion,

\par }{\Q And as a young lion to the house of Judah:

\par }{\Q I,
{\ADD{even}} I, will tear and go away;

\par }{\Q I will take away, and none shall rescue
{\ADD{him}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}I will go
{\ADD{and}} return to my place,

\par }{\Q Till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:

\par }{\Q In their affliction they will seek me early.




\par }\PoetryChap{6}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Come, and let us return unto the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q For he hath torn, and he will heal us;

\par }{\Q He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}After two days will he revive us:

\par }{\Q In the third day he will raise us up,

\par }{\Q And we shall live in his sight.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Then shall we know,
{\ADD{if}} we follow on to know the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q His going forth
{\ADD{is}} prepared as the morning;

\par }{\Q And he shall come unto us as the rain,

\par }{\Q As the latter
{\ADD{and}} former rain
{\ADD{unto}} the earth.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?

\par }{\Q O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?

\par }{\Q For your goodness
{\ADD{is}} as a morning cloud,

\par }{\Q And as the early dew
{\ADD{it}} goeth away.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Therefore have I hewed
{\ADD{them}} by the prophets;

\par }{\Q I have slain them by the words of my mouth:

\par }{\Q And thy judgments
{\ADD{are as}} the light
{\ADD{that}} goeth forth.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;

\par }{\Q And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}But they like men have transgressed the covenant:

\par }{\Q There have they dealt treacherously against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Gilead
{\ADD{is}} a city of them that work iniquity,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And is}} polluted with blood.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And as troops
{\ADD{of robbers}} wait for a man,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{So}} the company of priests murder
{\ADD{in}} the way by consent:

\par }{\Q For they commit lewdness.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:

\par }{\Q There
{\ADD{is}} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee,

\par }{\Q When I returned the captivity of my people.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{7}{\Q \VerseOne{1}When I
{\ADD{would have}} healed Israel,

\par }{\Q Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria:

\par }{\Q For they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} the troop
{\ADD{of robbers}} spoileth without.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And they consider not in their hearts

\par }{\Q {\ADD{That}} I remember all their wickedness:

\par }{\Q Now their own doings have beset them about;

\par }{\Q They are before my face.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}They make the king glad with their wickedness,

\par }{\Q And the princes with their lies.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}They
{\ADD{are}} all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Who}} ceaseth from raising after
{\ADD{he}} hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}{\ADD{In}} the day of our king the princes have made
{\ADD{him}} sick
{\ADD{with}} bottles of wine;

\par }{\Q He stretched out his hand with scorners.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait:

\par }{\Q Their baker sleepeth all the night;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{In}} the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}They are all hot as an oven,

\par }{\Q And have devoured their judges;

\par }{\Q All their kings are fallen:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{There is}} none among them that calleth unto me.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;

\par }{\Q Ephraim is a cake not turned.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth
{\ADD{it}} not:

\par }{\Q Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face:

\par }{\Q And they do not return to the
{\SC{Lord}} their God, nor seek him for all this.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without heart:

\par }{\Q They call
{\ADD{to}} Egypt, they go
{\ADD{to}} Assyria.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them;

\par }{\Q I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven;

\par }{\Q I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:

\par }{\Q Destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me:

\par }{\Q Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And they have not cried unto me with their heart,

\par }{\Q When they howled upon their beds:

\par }{\Q They assemble themselves for corn and wine,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} they rebel against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Though I have bound
{\ADD{and}} strengthened their arms,

\par }{\Q Yet do they imagine mischief against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}They return,
{\ADD{but}} not
{\ADD{to}} the most High:

\par }{\Q They are like a deceitful bow:

\par }{\Q Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue:

\par }{\Q This
{\ADD{shall be}} their derision in the land of Egypt.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{8}{\Q \VerseOne{1}{\ADD{Set}} the trumpet to thy mouth.

\par }{\Q {\ADD{He shall come}} as an eagle against the house of the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q Because they have transgressed my covenant,

\par }{\Q And trespassed against my law.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Israel hath cast off
{\ADD{the thing that is}} good:

\par }{\Q The enemy shall pursue him.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}They have set up kings, but not by me:

\par }{\Q They have made princes, and I knew
{\ADD{it}} not:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Of}} their silver and their gold have they made them idols,

\par }{\Q That they may be cut off.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast
{\ADD{thee}} off;

\par }{\Q Mine anger is kindled against them:

\par }{\Q How long
{\ADD{will it be}} ere they attain to innocency?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For from Israel
{\ADD{was}} it also:

\par }{\Q The workman made it; therefore it
{\ADD{is}} not God:

\par }{\Q But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:

\par }{\Q It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:

\par }{\Q If so be it yield,
{\ADD{the}} strangers shall swallow it up.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Israel is swallowed up:

\par }{\Q Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein
{\ADD{is}} no pleasure.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For they are gone up
{\ADD{to}} Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:

\par }{\Q Ephraim hath hired lovers.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them,

\par }{\Q And they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,

\par }{\Q Altars shall be unto him to sin.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}I have written to him the great things of my law,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{But}} they were counted as a strange
{\ADD{thing}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They sacrifice flesh
{\ADD{for}} the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat
{\ADD{it;}}

\par }{\Q {\ADD{But}} the
{\SC{Lord}} accepteth them not;

\par }{\Q Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:

\par }{\Q They shall return
{\ADD{to}} Egypt.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;

\par }{\Q And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities:

\par }{\Q But I will send a fire upon his cities,

\par }{\Q And it shall devour the palaces thereof.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{9}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as
{\ADD{other}} people:

\par }{\Q For thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

\par }{\Q Thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,

\par }{\Q And the new wine shall fail in her.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}They shall not dwell in the
{\SC{Lord’s}} land;

\par }{\Q But Ephraim shall return
{\ADD{to}} Egypt,

\par }{\Q And they shall eat unclean
{\ADD{things}} in Assyria.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}They shall not offer wine
{\ADD{offerings}} to the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q Neither shall they be pleasing unto him:

\par }{\Q Their sacrifices
{\ADD{shall be}} unto them as the bread of mourners;

\par }{\Q All that eat thereof shall be polluted:

\par }{\Q For their bread for their soul shall not come
{\ADD{into}} the house of the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}What will ye do in the solemn day,

\par }{\Q And in the day of the feast of the
{\SC{Lord}}?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For lo, they are gone because of destruction:

\par }{\Q Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them:

\par }{\Q The pleasant
{\ADD{places}} for their silver, nettles shall possess them:

\par }{\Q Thorns
{\ADD{shall be}} in their tabernacles.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}The days of visitation are come,

\par }{\Q The days of recompence are come;

\par }{\Q Israel shall know
{\ADD{it:}}

\par }{\Q The prophet
{\ADD{is}} a fool, the spiritual man
{\ADD{is}} mad,

\par }{\Q For the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The watchman of Ephraim
{\ADD{was}} with my God:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{But}} the prophet
{\ADD{is}} a snare of a fowler in all his ways,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} hatred in the house of his God.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}They have deeply corrupted
{\ADD{themselves}}, as
{\ADD{in}} the days of Gibeah:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Therefore}} he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

\par }{\Q I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{But}} they went
{\ADD{to}} Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto
{\ADD{that}} shame;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{their}} abominations were according as they loved.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}{\ADD{As for}} Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,

\par }{\Q From the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Though they bring up their children,

\par }{\Q Yet will I bereave them,
{\ADD{that there shall}} not
{\ADD{be}} a man
{\ADD{left:}}

\par }{\Q Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus,
{\ADD{is}} planted in a pleasant place:

\par }{\Q But Ephraim
{\ADD{shall}} bring forth his children to the murderer.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Give them, O
{\SC{Lord}}: what wilt thou give?

\par }{\Q Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}All their wickedness
{\ADD{is}} in Gilgal, for there I hated them:

\par }{\Q For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,

\par }{\Q I will love them no more:

\par }{\Q All their princes
{\ADD{are}} revolters.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:

\par }{\Q Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay
{\ADD{even}} the beloved
{\ADD{fruit}} of their womb.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:

\par }{\Q And they shall be wanderers among the nations.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{10}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Israel
{\ADD{is}} an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:

\par }{\Q According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars;

\par }{\Q According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:

\par }{\Q He shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For now they shall say, We have no king,

\par }{\Q Because we feared not the
{\SC{Lord}};

\par }{\Q What then should a king do to us?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:

\par }{\Q Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven:

\par }{\Q For the people thereof shall mourn over it,

\par }{\Q And the priests thereof
{\ADD{that}} rejoiced on it,

\par }{\Q For the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}It shall be also carried unto Assyria
{\ADD{for}} a present to king Jareb:

\par }{\Q Ephraim shall receive shame,

\par }{\Q And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}{\ADD{As for}} Samaria, her king is cut off

\par }{\Q As the foam upon the water.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:

\par }{\Q The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars;

\par }{\Q And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us;

\par }{\Q And to the hills, Fall on us.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood:

\par }{\Q The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}{\ADD{It is}} in my desire that I should chastise them;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{the}} people shall be gathered against them,

\par }{\Q When
{\ADD{they}} shall bind themselves in their two furrows.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And Ephraim
{\ADD{is as}} a heifer
{\ADD{that is}} taught,
{\ADD{and}} loveth to tread out
{\ADD{the corn}};

\par }{\Q But I passed over upon her fair neck:

\par }{\Q I will make Ephraim to ride;

\par }{\Q Judah shall plow,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} Jacob shall break his clods.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Sow to yourselves in righteousness,

\par }{\Q Reap in mercy;

\par }{\Q Break up your fallow ground:

\par }{\Q For
{\ADD{it is}} time to seek the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q Till he come and rain righteousness upon you.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;

\par }{\Q Ye have eaten the fruit of lies:

\par }{\Q Because thou didst trust in thy way,

\par }{\Q In the multitude of thy mighty
{\ADD{men}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people,

\par }{\Q And all thy fortresses shall be spoiled,

\par }{\Q As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle:

\par }{\Q The mother was dashed in pieces upon
{\ADD{her}} children.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness;

\par }{\Q In a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{11}{\Q \VerseOne{1}When Israel
{\ADD{was}} a child, then I loved him,

\par }{\Q And called my son out of Egypt.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}{\ADD{As}} they called them, so they went from them:

\par }{\Q They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms;

\par }{\Q But they knew not that I healed them.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love:

\par }{\Q And I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws,

\par }{\Q And I laid meat unto them.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}He shall not return into the land of Egypt,

\par }{\Q But the Assyrian shall be his king,

\par }{\Q Because they refused to return.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And the sword shall abide on his cities,

\par }{\Q And shall consume his branches, and devour
{\ADD{them}},

\par }{\Q Because of their own counsels.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And my people are bent to backsliding from me:

\par }{\Q Though they called them to the most High,

\par }{\Q None at all would exalt
{\ADD{him}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?

\par }{\Q {\ADD{How}} shall I deliver thee, Israel?

\par }{\Q How shall I make thee as Admah?

\par }{\Q {\ADD{How}} shall I set thee as Zeboim?

\par }{\Q Mine heart is turned within me,

\par }{\Q My repentings are kindled together.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger,

\par }{\Q I will not return to destroy Ephraim:

\par }{\Q For I
{\ADD{am}} God, and not man;

\par }{\Q The Holy One in the midst of thee:

\par }{\Q And I will not enter into the city.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}They shall walk after the
{\SC{Lord}}: he shall roar like a lion:

\par }{\Q When he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt,

\par }{\Q And as a dove out of the land of Assyria:

\par }{\Q And I will place them in their houses, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit:

\par }{\Q But Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{12}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind:

\par }{\Q He daily increaseth lies and desolation;

\par }{\Q And they do make a covenant with the Assyrians,

\par }{\Q And oil is carried into Egypt.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The
{\SC{Lord}} hath also a controversy with Judah,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{will}} punish Jacob according to his ways;

\par }{\Q According to his doings will he recompense him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{3}He took his brother by the heel in the womb,

\par }{\Q And by his strength he had power with God:


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Yea, he had power over
{\ADD{the}} angel, and prevailed:

\par }{\Q He wept, and made supplication unto him:

\par }{\Q He found him
{\ADD{in}} Beth-el, and there he spake with us;


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Even the
{\SC{Lord}} God of hosts; the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} his memorial.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Therefore turn thou to thy God:

\par }{\Q Keep mercy and judgment,

\par }{\Q And wait on thy God continually.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}{\ADD{He is}} a merchant, the balances of deceit
{\ADD{are}} in his hand:

\par }{\Q He loveth to oppress.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{In}} all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that
{\ADD{were}} sin.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And I
{\ADD{that am}} the
{\SC{Lord}} thy God from the land of Egypt

\par }{\Q Will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as
{\ADD{in}} the days of the solemn feast.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,

\par }{\Q And used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}{\ADD{Is there}} iniquity
{\ADD{in}} Gilead? surely they are vanity:

\par }{\Q They sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;

\par }{\Q Yea, their altars
{\ADD{are}} as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And Jacob fled
{\ADD{into}} the country of Syria,

\par }{\Q And Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept
{\ADD{sheep}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And by a prophet the
{\SC{Lord}} brought Israel out of Egypt,

\par }{\Q And by a prophet was he preserved.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Ephraim provoked
{\ADD{him}} to anger most bitterly:

\par }{\Q Therefore shall he leave his blood upon him,

\par }{\Q And his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{13}{\Q \VerseOne{1}When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted
{\ADD{himself}} in Israel;

\par }{\Q But when he offended in Baal, he died.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And now they sin more and more,

\par }{\Q And have made them molten images of their silver,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} idols according to their own understanding,

\par }{\Q All of it the work of the craftsmen:

\par }{\Q They say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud,

\par }{\Q And as the early dew that passeth away,

\par }{\Q As the chaff
{\ADD{that}} is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor,

\par }{\Q And as the smoke out of the chimney.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Yet I
{\ADD{am}} the
{\SC{Lord}} thy God from the land of Egypt,

\par }{\Q And thou shalt know no god but me:

\par }{\Q For
{\ADD{there is}} no saviour beside me.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I did know thee in the wilderness,

\par }{\Q In the land of great drought.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}According to their pasture, so were they filled;

\par }{\Q They were filled, and their heart was exalted;

\par }{\Q Therefore have they forgotten me.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Therefore I will be unto them as a lion:

\par }{\Q As a leopard by the way will I observe
{\ADD{them:}}


\par }{\Q \VS{8}I will meet them as a bear
{\ADD{that is}} bereaved of her whelps,

\par }{\Q And will rent the caul of their heart,

\par }{\Q And there will I devour them like a lion:

\par }{\Q The wild beast shall tear them.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}O Israel,
{\ADD{thou}} hast destroyed thyself; but in me
{\ADD{is}} thine help.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}I will be thy king: where
{\ADD{is any other}} that may save thee in all thy cities?

\par }{\Q And thy judges
{\ADD{of}} whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}I gave thee a king in mine anger,

\par }{\Q And took
{\ADD{him away}} in my wrath.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}The iniquity of Ephraim
{\ADD{is}} bound up; his sin
{\ADD{is}} hid.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}The sorrows of a travailing
{\ADD{woman}} shall come upon him:

\par }{\Q He
{\ADD{is}} an unwise son;

\par }{\Q For he should not stay long in
{\ADD{the place of}} the breaking forth of children.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}I will ransom them from the power of the grave;

\par }{\Q I will redeem them from death:

\par }{\Q O death, I will be thy plagues;

\par }{\Q O grave, I will be thy destruction:

\par }{\Q Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Though he be fruitful among
{\ADD{his}} brethren,

\par }{\Q An east wind shall come, the wind of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{shall}} come up from the wilderness,

\par }{\Q And his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up:

\par }{\Q He shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Samaria shall become desolate;

\par }{\Q For she hath rebelled against her God:

\par }{\Q They shall fall by the sword:

\par }{\Q Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,

\par }{\Q And their women with child shall be ript up.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{14}{\Q \VerseOne{1}O Israel, return unto the
{\SC{Lord}} thy God;

\par }{\Q For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Take with you words, and turn to the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q Say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive
{\ADD{us}} graciously:

\par }{\Q So will we render the calves of our lips.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Asshur shall not save us: we will not ride upon horses:

\par }{\Q Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands,
{\ADD{Ye are}} our gods:

\par }{\Q For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:

\par }{\Q For mine anger is turned away from him.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I will be as the dew unto Israel:

\par }{\Q He shall grow as the lily,

\par }{\Q And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}His branches shall spread,

\par }{\Q And his beauty shall be as the olive tree,

\par }{\Q And his smell as Lebanon.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}They that dwell under his shadow shall return;

\par }{\Q They shall revive
{\ADD{as}} the corn, and grow as the vine:

\par }{\Q The sent thereof
{\ADD{shall be}} as the wine of Lebanon.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Ephraim
{\ADD{shall say}}, What have I to do any more with idols?

\par }{\Q I have heard
{\ADD{him}}, and observed him:

\par }{\Q I
{\ADD{am}} like a green fir tree.

\par }{\Q From me is thy fruit found.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Who
{\ADD{is}} wise, and he shall understand these
{\ADD{things?}}

\par }{\Q Prudent, and he shall know them?

\par }{\Q For the ways of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{are}} right,

\par }{\Q And the just shall walk in them:

\par }{\Q But the transgressors shall fall therein.


\par }