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Hosea

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Chapter 13

¹When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died. ²And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!” ³Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. ⁴But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. ⁵It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; ⁶but when they had grazed, they became full, and being filled, their heart was proud; therefore they forgot me. ⁷So I will be to them like a lion; as a leopard I will lurk beside the way. ⁸I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open the covering of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open. ⁹He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. ¹⁰Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers—those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? ¹¹I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath. ¹²The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store. ¹³The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the proper time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb. ¹⁴I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. ¹⁵Though he may flourish among his brothers, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing. ¹⁶Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.