Hosea 10

Hosea 10 - King James Version

 1Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

 2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

 3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

 4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

 5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

 6It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

 7As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

 8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

 9O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

 10It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

 11And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

 12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

 13Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

 14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

 15So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

Hosea 9

Hosea 9 - King James Version

 1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

 2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

 3They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

 4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

 5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

 6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

 7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

 8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

 10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

 11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

 12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

 13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

 14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

 16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

 17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 8

Hosea 8 - King James Version

 1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

 2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

 3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

 4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

 5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

 6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

 7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

 8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

 9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

 10Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

 11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

 12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

 14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hosea 7

Hosea 7 - King James Version

 1When 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.

 2And 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.

 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

 4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

 5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

 6For 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.

 7They 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.

 8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

 10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

 11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

 12When 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.

 13Woe 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.

 14And 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.

 15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

 16They 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.

Hosea 6

Hosea 6 - King James Version

 1Come, 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.

 2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

 3Then 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.

 4O 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.

 5Therefore 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.

 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

 7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

 8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

 9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

 10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

 11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Hosea 5

Hosea 5 - King James Version

 1Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

 2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

 4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

 5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

 6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

 7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

 8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

 9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

 10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

 11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

 12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

 13When 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.

 14For 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.

 15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.