have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove a landmark: 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 to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. [1] 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. [2] 14 For I will be to 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. [3]
CHAP. 6.
Come, and let us return to 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 will he 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 to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. [7]
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. [8] [9]
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
CHAP. 7.
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 plunder outside. [10] [11]
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them on every side; they are before my face. [12]
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 kneaded the dough, until it is leavened. [13] [14]
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. [15]
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. [16]
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 to 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. [17]
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 to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. [18]
14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. [19]
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.
CHAP. 8.
1 Set 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. [20]
2 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They 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 for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if it shall yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. [21]
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. [22]
10 Yea, 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. [23] [24]
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and judge their sins: they shall return to Egypt. [25]
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his palaces.
CHAP. 9.
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast played the harlot from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every threshingfloor. [26]
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. [27]
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What
- ↑ rottenness: or, a worm
- ↑ king Jareb: or, the king of Jareb: or, the king that should plead
- ↑ acknowledge...: Heb. be guilty
- ↑ goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness
- ↑ and...: or, that thy judgments might be, etc
- ↑ men: or, Adam
- ↑ polluted: or, cunning for
- ↑ by...: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem
- ↑ lewdness: or, enormity
- ↑ wickedness: Heb. evils
- ↑ spoileth: Heb. strippeth
- ↑ consider...: Heb. say not to
- ↑ who...: or, the raiser will cease
- ↑ raising: or, waking
- ↑ bottles...: or, heat through wine
- ↑ made...: or, applied
- ↑ here...: Heb. sprinkled
- ↑ destruction: Heb. spoil
- ↑ have...: or, chastened
- ↑ thy: Heb. the roof of thy
- ↑ stalk: or, standing corn
- ↑ lovers: Heb. loves
- ↑ sorrow: or, begin
- ↑ a...: or, in a little while
- ↑ They sacrifice...: or, In the sacrifices of mine offerings they, etc
- ↑ upon: or, in, etc
- ↑ winepress: or, winefat
