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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The End Times</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people&#8212;everyone whose name is found written in the book&#8212;will be delivered. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Those who are wise</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who impart wisdom</span></span></span><span class="content"> will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, &#8220;How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, &#8220;It will be for a time, times and half a time.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a year, two years and half a year</span></span></span><span class="content"> When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, &#8220;My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Joash, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoash</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hosea&#8217;s Wife and Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began to speak through Hosea, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Hosea, &#8220;Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In that day I will break Israel&#8217;s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Hosea, &#8220;Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means &#8220;not loved&#8221;), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them&#8212;not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God, will save them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Call him Lo-Ammi (which means &#8220;not my people&#8221;), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your <span class="nd">I am</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, &#8216;You are not my people,&#8217; they will be called &#8216;children of the living God.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 1:10,11 is numbered 2:1,2.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say of your brothers, &#8216;My people,&#8217; and of your sisters, &#8216;My loved one.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Punished and Restored</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Rebuke your mother, rebuke her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="content">for she is not my wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="content">and I am not her husband.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="content">Let her remove the adulterous look from her face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="content">and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Otherwise I will strip her naked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="content">and make her as bare as on the day she was born;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="content">I will make her like a desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="content">turn her into a parched land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="content">and slay her with thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will not show my love to her children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.2.4"><span class="content">because they are the children of adultery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Their mother has been unfaithful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="content">and has conceived them in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="content">She said, &#8216;I will go after my lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="content">who give me my food and my water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="content">my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.2.6"><span class="content">I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="content">she will look for them but not find them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="content">Then she will say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="content">&#8216;I will go back to my husband as at first,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="content">for then I was better off than now.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">She has not acknowledged that I was the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.2.8"><span class="content">who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.2.8"><span class="content">who lavished on her the silver and gold&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.2.8"><span class="content">which they used for Baal.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.2.9"><span class="content">and my new wine when it is ready.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.2.9"><span class="content">I will take back my wool and my linen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.2.9"><span class="content">intended to cover her naked body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So now I will expose her lewdness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.2.10"><span class="content">before the eyes of her lovers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.2.10"><span class="content">no one will take her out of my hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will stop all her celebrations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.2.11"><span class="content">her yearly festivals, her New Moons,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.2.11"><span class="content">her Sabbath days&#8212;all her appointed festivals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will ruin her vines and her fig trees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.2.12"><span class="content">which she said were her pay from her lovers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.2.12"><span class="content">I will make them a thicket,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.2.12"><span class="content">and wild animals will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will punish her for the days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">she burned incense to the Baals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">she decked herself with rings and jewelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">and went after her lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">but me she forgot,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I am now going to allure her;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.2.14"><span class="content">I will lead her into the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.2.14"><span class="content">and speak tenderly to her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">There I will give her back her vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.2.15"><span class="content">and will make the Valley of Achor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:15 </span><span class="fq">Achor </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">trouble.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a door of hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.2.15"><span class="content">There she will respond</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sing</span></span></span><span class="content"> as in the days of her youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.2.15"><span class="content">as in the day she came up out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.2.16"><span class="content">&#8220;you will call me &#8216;my husband&#8217;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.2.16"><span class="content">you will no longer call me &#8216;my master.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">baal</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.2.17"><span class="content">no longer will their names be invoked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day I will make a covenant for them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">and the creatures that move along the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">Bow and sword and battle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">I will abolish from the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">so that all may lie down in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will betroth you to me forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.2.19"><span class="content">I will betroth you in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span><span class="content"> righteousness and justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.2.19"><span class="content">in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with</span></span></span><span class="content"> love and compassion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HOS.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will betroth you in faithfulness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HOS.2.20"><span class="content">and you will acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HOS.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HOS.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day I will respond,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HOS.2.21"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HOS.2.21"><span class="content">&#8220;I will respond to the skies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HOS.2.21"><span class="content">and they will respond to the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HOS.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HOS.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and the earth will respond to the grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HOS.2.22"><span class="content">the new wine and the olive oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HOS.2.22"><span class="content">and they will respond to Jezreel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="fq">Jezreel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God plants.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HOS.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HOS.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will plant her for myself in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HOS.2.23"><span class="content">I will show my love to the one I called &#8216;Not my loved one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Lo-Ruhamah </span><span class="ft">(see 1:6)</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HOS.2.23"><span class="content">I will say to those called &#8216;Not my people,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Lo-Ammi </span><span class="ft">(see 1:9)</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217; &#8216;You are my people&#8217;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HOS.2.23"><span class="content">and they will say, &#8216;You are my God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hosea&#8217;s Reconciliation With His Wife</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I bought her for fifteen shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 6 ounces or about 170 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and about a homer and a lethek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">A homer and a lethek possibly weighed about 430 pounds or about 195 kilograms.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then I told her, &#8220;You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to his blessings in the last days.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Charge Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a charge to bring</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">against you who live in the land:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no faithfulness, no love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">no acknowledgment of God in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There is only cursing,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, to pronounce a curse on</span></span></span><span class="content"> lying and murder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">stealing and adultery;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">they break all bounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">and bloodshed follows bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of this the land dries up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">and all who live in it waste away;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">and the fish in the sea are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But let no one bring a charge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">let no one accuse another,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">for your people are like those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">who bring charges against a priest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You stumble day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">and the prophets stumble with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">So I will destroy your mother&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have rejected knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">I also reject you as my priests;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">because you have ignored the law of your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">I also will ignore your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The more priests there were,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">the more they sinned against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">they exchanged their glorious God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me; / I will exchange their glory</span></span></span><span class="content"> for something disgraceful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They feed on the sins of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="content">and relish their wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And it will be: Like people, like priests.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">I will punish both of them for their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">and repay them for their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;They will eat but not have enough;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">they will engage in prostitution but not flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">because they have deserted the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">to give themselves </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">to prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">old wine and new wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">take away their understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My people consult a wooden idol,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">and a diviner&#8217;s rod speaks to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">they are unfaithful to their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They sacrifice on the mountaintops</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">and burn offerings on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">under oak, poplar and terebinth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">where the shade is pleasant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">and your daughters-in-law to adultery.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will not punish your daughters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">when they turn to prostitution,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">nor your daughters-in-law</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">when they commit adultery,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">because the men themselves consort with harlots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">a people without understanding will come to ruin!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though you, Israel, commit adultery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">do not let Judah become guilty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not go to Gilgal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">do not go up to Beth Aven.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="fq">Beth Aven </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of wickedness </span><span class="ft">(a derogatory name for Bethel, which means </span><span class="fqa">house of God</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">And do not swear, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The Israelites are stubborn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">like a stubborn heifer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> pasture them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">like lambs in a meadow?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Ephraim is joined to idols;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="content">leave him alone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even when their drinks are gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">they continue their prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">their rulers dearly love shameful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A whirlwind will sweep them away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.4.19"><span class="content">and their sacrifices will bring them shame.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear this, you priests!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">Pay attention, you Israelites!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">Listen, royal house!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">This judgment is against you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">You have been a snare at Mizpah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">a net spread out on Tabor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="content">I will discipline all of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I know all about Ephraim;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Israel is not hidden from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Israel is corrupt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Their deeds do not permit them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">to return to their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">A spirit of prostitution is in their heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s arrogance testifies against them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">Judah also stumbles with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they go with their flocks and herds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">to seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">they will not find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">he has withdrawn himself from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They are unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">they give birth to illegitimate children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">When they celebrate their New Moon feasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">he will devour</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Now their New Moon feasts / will devour them and</span></span></span><span class="content"> their fields.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sound the trumpet in Gibeah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">the horn in Ramah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:8 </span><span class="fq">Beth Aven </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of wickedness </span><span class="ft">(a derogatory name for Bethel, which means </span><span class="fqa">house of God</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">lead on, Benjamin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Ephraim will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">on the day of reckoning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">Among the tribes of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">I proclaim what is certain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Judah&#8217;s leaders are like those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">who move boundary stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">I will pour out my wrath on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">like a flood of water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim is oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">trampled in judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">intent on pursuing idols.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am like a moth to Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="content">like rot to the people of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;When Ephraim saw his sickness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">and Judah his sores,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">then Ephraim turned to Assyria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">and sent to the great king for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">But he is not able to cure you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">not able to heal your sores.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">like a great lion to Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">I will tear them to pieces and go away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will return to my lair</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">until they have borne their guilt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">and seek my face&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">in their misery</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">they will earnestly seek me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Unrepentant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, let us return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">He has torn us to pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">but he will heal us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">he has injured us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">but he will bind up our wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After two days he will revive us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">on the third day he will restore us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">that we may live in his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let us acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">let us press on to acknowledge him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">As surely as the sun rises,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">he will appear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">he will come to us like the winter rains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">like the spring rains that water the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;What can I do with you, Ephraim?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">What can I do with you, Judah?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">Your love is like the morning mist,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">like the early dew that disappears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">I killed you with the words of my mouth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">then my judgments go forth like the sun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:5 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="content">and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As at Adam,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Like Adam</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">Like human beings</span></span></span><span class="content"> they have broken the covenant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="content">they were unfaithful to me there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gilead is a city of evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="content">stained with footprints of blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">so do bands of priests;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">they murder on the road to Shechem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">carrying out their wicked schemes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have seen a horrible thing in Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">There Ephraim is given to prostitution,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">Israel is defiled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Also for you, Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="content">a harvest is appointed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">whenever I would heal Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">the sins of Ephraim are exposed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">and the crimes of Samaria revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">They practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">bandits rob in the streets;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but they do not realize</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">that I remember all their evil deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">Their sins engulf them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">they are always before me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They delight the king with their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">the princes with their lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">burning like an oven</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">whose fire the baker need not stir</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">from the kneading of the dough till it rises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the day of the festival of our king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">the princes become inflamed with wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">and he joins hands with the mockers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their hearts are like an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">they approach him with intrigue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">Their passion smolders all night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All of them are hot as an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">they devour their rulers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">All their kings fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">and none of them calls on me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim mixes with the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Foreigners sap his strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not realize it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">His hair is sprinkled with gray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not notice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s arrogance testifies against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">but despite all this</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">he does not return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">or search for him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim is like a dove,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">easily deceived and senseless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now calling to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now turning to Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they go, I will throw my net over them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">When I hear them flocking together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will catch them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Woe to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have strayed from me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">Destruction to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have rebelled against me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">I long to redeem them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">but they speak about me falsely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They do not cry out to me from their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but wail on their beds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">They slash themselves,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">They gather together</span></span></span><span class="content"> appealing to their gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">for grain and new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but they turn away from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I trained them and strengthened their arms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">but they plot evil against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They do not turn to the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">they are like a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">Their leaders will fall by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">because of their insolent words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">For this they will be ridiculed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">in the land of Egypt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel to Reap the Whirlwind</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Put the trumpet to your lips!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">An eagle is over the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">because the people have broken my covenant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">and rebelled against my law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Israel cries out to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="content">&#8216;Our God, we acknowledge you!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Israel has rejected what is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="content">an enemy will pursue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They set up kings without my consent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">they choose princes without my approval.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">With their silver and gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">they make idols for themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">to their own destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samaria, throw out your calf-idol!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">My anger burns against them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">How long will they be incapable of purity?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are from Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">This calf&#8212;a metalworker has made it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">it is not God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">It will be broken in pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">that calf of Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;They sow the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">and reap the whirlwind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">The stalk has no head;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">it will produce no flour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">Were it to yield grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">foreigners would swallow it up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Israel is swallowed up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">now she is among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">like something no one wants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For they have gone up to Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">like a wild donkey wandering alone.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Although they have sold themselves among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">I will now gather them together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">They will begin to waste away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">under the oppression of the mighty king.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="content">these have become altars for sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I wrote for them the many things of my law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="content">but they regarded them as something foreign.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">and though they eat the meat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is not pleased with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">Now he will remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">and punish their sins:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">They will return to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Israel has forgotten their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">and built palaces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">Judah has fortified many towns.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">But I will send fire on their cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.8.14"><span class="content">that will consume their fortresses.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Punishment for Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not rejoice, Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">do not be jubilant like the other nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">For you have been unfaithful to your God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">you love the wages of a prostitute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">at every threshing floor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">the new wine will fail them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They will not remain in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">Ephraim will return to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">and eat unclean food in Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will not pour out wine offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">nor will their sacrifices please him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">all who eat them will be unclean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">This food will be for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">it will not come into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">on the feast days of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even if they escape from destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Egypt will gather them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and Memphis will bury them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and thorns will overrun their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The days of punishment are coming,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the days of reckoning are at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Let Israel know this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Because your sins are so many</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">and your hostility so great,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the prophet is considered a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the inspired person a maniac.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The prophet, along with my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">is the watchman over Ephraim,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">yet snares await him on all his paths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">and hostility in the house of his God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They have sunk deep into corruption,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">as in the days of Gibeah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">God will remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">and punish them for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I found Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like finding grapes in the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">when I saw your ancestors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">But when they came to Baal Peor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">and became as vile as the thing they loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim&#8217;s glory will fly away like a bird&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Even if they rear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">I will bereave them of every one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">Woe to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">when I turn away from them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">planted in a pleasant place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">But Ephraim will bring out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">their children to the slayer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Give them, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">what will you give them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">Give them wombs that miscarry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">and breasts that are dry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I hated them there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">Because of their sinful deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will drive them out of my house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will no longer love them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">all their leaders are rebellious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Ephraim is blighted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">their root is withered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">they yield no fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">Even if they bear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">I will slay their cherished offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My God will reject them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">because they have not obeyed him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">they will be wanderers among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Israel was a spreading vine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">he brought forth fruit for himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">As his fruit increased,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">he built more altars;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">as his land prospered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">he adorned his sacred stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Their heart is deceitful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.10.2"><span class="content">and now they must bear their guilt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.10.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will demolish their altars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.10.2"><span class="content">and destroy their sacred stones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then they will say, &#8220;We have no king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.10.3"><span class="content">because we did not revere the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.10.3"><span class="content">But even if we had a king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.10.3"><span class="content">what could he do for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They make many promises,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="content">take false oaths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="content">and make agreements;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="content">therefore lawsuits spring up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="content">like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The people who live in Samaria fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">for the calf-idol of Beth Aven.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:5 </span><span class="fq">Beth Aven </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of wickedness </span><span class="ft">(a derogatory name for Bethel, which means </span><span class="fqa">house of God</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">Its people will mourn over it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">and so will its idolatrous priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">those who had rejoiced over its splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">because it is taken from them into exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It will be carried to Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.10.6"><span class="content">as tribute for the great king.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.10.6"><span class="content">Ephraim will be disgraced;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.10.6"><span class="content">Israel will be ashamed of its foreign alliances.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Samaria&#8217;s king will be destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.10.7"><span class="content">swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The high places of wickedness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">aven, </span><span class="ft">a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see verse 5.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be destroyed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">it is the sin of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">Thorns and thistles will grow up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">and cover their altars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">Then they will say to the mountains, &#8220;Cover us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">and to the hills, &#8220;Fall on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.10.9"><span class="content">and there you have remained.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">there a stand was taken</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.10.9"><span class="content">Will not war again overtake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.10.9"><span class="content">the evildoers in Gibeah?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When I please, I will punish them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.10.10"><span class="content">nations will be gathered against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.10.10"><span class="content">to put them in bonds for their double sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim is a trained heifer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">that loves to thresh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">so I will put a yoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">on her fair neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">I will drive Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">Judah must plow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">and Jacob must break up the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Sow righteousness for yourselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">reap the fruit of unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">and break up your unplowed ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">for it is time to seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">until he comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">and showers his righteousness on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But you have planted wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="content">you have reaped evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="content">you have eaten the fruit of deception.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="content">Because you have depended on your own strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="content">and on your many warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">the roar of battle will rise against your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.10.14"><span class="content">so that all your fortresses will be devastated&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.10.14"><span class="content">as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.10.14"><span class="content">when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So will it happen to you, Bethel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.10.15"><span class="content">because your wickedness is great.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.10.15"><span class="content">When that day dawns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.10.15"><span class="content">the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Love for Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;When Israel was a child, I loved him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.11.1"><span class="content">and out of Egypt I called my son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But the more they were called,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.11.2"><span class="content">the more they went away from me.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.11.2"><span class="content">They sacrificed to the Baals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.11.2"><span class="content">and they burned incense to images.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.11.3"><span class="content">taking them by the arms;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.11.3"><span class="content">but they did not realize</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.11.3"><span class="content">it was I who healed them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I led them with cords of human kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="content">with ties of love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="content">To them I was like one who lifts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="content">a little child to the cheek,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="content">and I bent down to feed them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will they not return to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.11.5"><span class="content">and will not Assyria rule over them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.11.5"><span class="content">because they refuse to repent?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">A sword will flash in their cities;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.11.6"><span class="content">it will devour their false prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.11.6"><span class="content">and put an end to their plans.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My people are determined to turn from me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.11.7"><span class="content">Even though they call me God Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.11.7"><span class="content">I will by no means exalt them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can I give you up, Ephraim?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">How can I hand you over, Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">How can I treat you like Admah?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">How can I make you like Zeboyim?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">My heart is changed within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">all my compassion is aroused.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will not carry out my fierce anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="content">nor will I devastate Ephraim again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="content">For I am God, and not a man&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="content">the Holy One among you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="content">I will not come against their cities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They will follow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.11.10"><span class="content">he will roar like a lion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.11.10"><span class="content">When he roars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.11.10"><span class="content">his children will come trembling from the west.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will come from Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="content">trembling like sparrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="content">from Assyria, fluttering like doves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="content">I will settle them in their homes,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Sin</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.11.12"><span class="content">Israel with deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.11.12"><span class="content">And Judah is unruly against God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.11.12"><span class="content">even against the faithful Holy One.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (11:12) is numbered 12:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 12:1-14 is numbered 12:2-15.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ephraim feeds on the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">he pursues the east wind all day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">and multiplies lies and violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">He makes a treaty with Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">and sends olive oil to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a charge to bring against Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">he will punish Jacob</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel, </span><span class="ft">a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fqa">he takes advantage of </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content"> according to his ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">and repay him according to his deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the womb he grasped his brother&#8217;s heel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">as a man he struggled with God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He struggled with the angel and overcame him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">he wept and begged for his favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">He found him at Bethel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">and talked with him there&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But you must return to your God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">maintain love and justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">and wait for your God always.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The merchant uses dishonest scales</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="content">and loves to defraud.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ephraim boasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I am very rich; I have become wealthy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">With all my wealth they will not find in me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">any iniquity or sin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have been the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">ever since you came out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">I will make you live in tents again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">as in the days of your appointed festivals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I spoke to the prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="content">gave them many visions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="content">and told parables through them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is Gilead wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">Its people are worthless!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">Their altars will be like piles of stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">on a plowed field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jacob fled to the country of Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="content">Israel served to get a wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="content">and to pay for her he tended sheep.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">by a prophet he cared for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="content">his Lord will leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="content">and will repay him for his contempt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Anger Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Ephraim spoke, people trembled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">he was exalted in Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now they sin more and more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">they make idols for themselves from their silver,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">cleverly fashioned images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">all of them the work of craftsmen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">It is said of these people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">&#8220;They offer human sacrifices!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">They kiss</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;Men who sacrifice / kiss</span></span></span><span class="content"> calf-idols!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore they will be like the morning mist,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like the early dew that disappears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like chaff swirling from a threshing floor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like smoke escaping through a window.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But I have been the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">ever since you came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">You shall acknowledge no God but me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">no Savior except me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I cared for you in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="content">in the land of burning heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I fed them, they were satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">when they were satisfied, they became proud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">then they forgot me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I will be like a lion to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="content">like a leopard I will lurk by the path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a bear robbed of her cubs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">I will attack them and rip them open;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">like a lion I will devour them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">a wild animal will tear them apart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are destroyed, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="content">because you are against me, against your helper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Where is your king, that he may save you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">Where are your rulers in all your towns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">of whom you said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">&#8216;Give me a king and princes&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So in my anger I gave you a king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="content">and in my wrath I took him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="content">his sins are kept on record.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">but he is a child without wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">when the time arrives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">he doesn&#8217;t have the sense to come out of the womb.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">I will redeem them from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">Where, O death, are your plagues?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">Where, O grave, is your destruction?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I will have no compassion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">even though he thrives among his brothers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">An east wind from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">blowing in from the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">his spring will fail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">and his well dry up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">His storehouse will be plundered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">of all its treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">because they have rebelled against their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">They will fall by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">their little ones will be dashed to the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">their pregnant women ripped open.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:16 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (13:16) is numbered 14:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Repentance to Bring Blessing</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Return, Israel, to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="content">Your sins have been your downfall!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take words with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">and return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">Say to him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Forgive all our sins</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">and receive us graciously,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">that we may offer the fruit of our lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Assyria cannot save us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">we will not mount warhorses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">We will never again say &#8216;Our gods&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">to what our own hands have made,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">for in you the fatherless find compassion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will heal their waywardness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">and love them freely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">for my anger has turned away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will be like the dew to Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">he will blossom like a lily.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">Like a cedar of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">he will send down his roots;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">his young shoots will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">His splendor will be like an olive tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">People will dwell again in his shade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">they will flourish like the grain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">they will blossom like the vine&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ephraim, what more have I</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:8 </span><span class="ft">Or Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">What more has Ephraim</span></span></span><span class="content"> to do with idols?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">I will answer him and care for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">I am like a flourishing juniper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">your fruitfulness comes from me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who is wise? Let them realize these things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">Who is discerning? Let them understand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">The ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">the righteous walk in them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">but the rebellious stumble in them.</span></span></div>
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