They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a
month devour them with their portions.
[8] Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry
aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
[9] Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the
tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
[10] The princes of Judah were like them
that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
[11] Ephraim is oppressed
and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
[12] Therefore will I be
unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
[13] When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not
heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
[14] For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to
the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
[15] I will
go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they
will seek me early.
Hos.6
[1] Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and
he will bind us up.
[2] After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall
live in his sight.
[3] Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared
as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
[4]
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a
morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
[5] Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I
have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
[6] For I
desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
[7] But they like
men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
[8] Gilead is a city
of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
[9] And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the
company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
[10] I have seen an horrible
thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
[11] Also, O Judah, he
hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Hos.7
[1] When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness
of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
[2]
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have
beset them about; they are before my face.
[3] They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
princes with their lies.
[4] They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from
raising after he hath kneeded the dough, until it be leavened.
[5] In the day of our king the princes have
made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
[6] For they have made ready
their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth
as a flaming fire.
[7] They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there
is none among them that calleth unto me.
[8] Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim
is a cake not turned.
[9] Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs
are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
[10] And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and
they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
[11] Ephraim also is like a silly dove
without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
[12] When they shall go, I will spread my net upon
them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath
heard.
[13] Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed
against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
[14] And they have not
cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn
and wine, and they rebel against me.
[15] Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they
imagine mischief against me.
[16] They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their
princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.