My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

When Israel was a boy, I loved him and called my son out of Egypt.

The beginning of the word of the LORD with Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land shall give itself over to whoredom by departing from the LORD.

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

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

Therefore thou shalt fall in the day, and the prophet shall also fall with thee by night, and I will cut off thy mother.

lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst.

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will never again have mercy upon the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.

And it shall come to pass in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.

Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them in the LORD their God and will not save them by bow, by sword, by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be congregated together, and they shall raise up for themselves one head, and they shall rise up from the land: for the day of Jezreel is great.

And after she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

But they have transposed the covenant as of men: there they have rebelled against me.

Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the early fruit of the fig tree in her beginning; but they went in unto Baalpeor and separated themselves unto shame and made themselves as abominable as that which they loved.

Gilead is a city of those that work iniquity and is polluted with blood.

Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Neither will I have mercy upon her sons, for they are the sons of whoredoms.

Ephraim is a heifer that is taught and loves to tread out the wheat; but I shall pass over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds seeking the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

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

And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass thinking only of himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

According to their greatness, so did they sin against me; therefore I will change their honour into shame.

For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has been shamed; for she said, I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

They eat up the sin of my people, and in their iniquity they raise up their soul.

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, the east wind shall come; the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all the vessels of desire.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns and make a wall that she shall not find her paths.

afterward the sons of Israel shall return, and they shall seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the end of the days.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.

Ephraim provoked God to anger with bitterness: therefore his blood shall be spilled upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord repay unto him.

They have rebelled against the LORD; for they have begotten strange sons; now a month shall devour them with their portions.

I saw uncleanness in the house of Israel: there Ephraim played the harlot, Israel defiled herself.

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, the altars shall be a sin unto him.

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

Even though they hire the Gentiles, now I will gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king and of the princes.

The people shall become like the priest; and I will visit his ways upon him, and they shall reward him according to his doings.

Blow ye the shofar in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah; sound the drum in Bethaven; after thee, O Benjamin.

Also, Judah placed a plant in thee when I had turned the captivity of my people.

For she did not recognize that I gave her the wheat and the wine and the oil and multiplied unto them the silver and the gold, with which they made Baal.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, that had good shade; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

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

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 according to what has been heard in their congregations.

Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax that I had given to cover her nakedness.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

Therefore, in thy peoples a tumult shall arise, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her sons.

He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.

All their wickedness was in Gilgal, for there I took a dislike to them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will never love them again: all their princes are disloyal.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; though I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have quit showing hospitality unto the LORD.

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

Contend with your mother, contend: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore remove her whoredoms from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts;

And now I will uncover her folly in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her out of my hand.

And I will visit upon her the times of the Baals, unto whom she burned incense, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, oblivious of me, saith the LORD.

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn because of the calf, and the religious persons thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.

Ephraim was smitten, their root is dried up; they shall bear no more fruit; even though they bring forth, yet I will slay even the desirable fruit of their womb.

And I will cause her vine and her fig tree to be cut down, of which she has said, These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will reduce them to a thicket, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast, her new moon, and her sabbath, and all her festivities.

And the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this.

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

Ephraim shall be made desolate in the day of chastisement; in the tribes of Israel I made known my truth.

I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.

My people ask counsel of their wooden idol, and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.

My God will cast them away because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the Gentiles.

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

And I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon Loruhamah, , and I will say to Loammi, , Thou art my people; and he shall say, Thou art my God.

And in that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven and with the serpents of the earth; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle of the earth and will cause them to sleep safely.

Israel is an empty vine. Shall he bring forth fruit unto himself? According to the multiplication of his fruit he has multiplied altars; according to the goodness of his land they have bettered their statues.

How must I leave thee, Ephraim? how shall I give thee up, Israel? how could I make thee as Admah? nor set thee as Zeboim? my heart churns within me; all my compassion is inflamed.

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah be guilty; and do not come unto Gilgal, neither go up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives,

Their drink has become corrupted; they have committed whoredom continually; her princes love gifts, shamefully.

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

The princes of Judah were like those that move the boundaries; therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the city.

I drew them with human cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those that raise the yoke from upon their cheeks, and I fed them.

Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation because they made a covenant with the Assyrians, and the oil is carried into Egypt.

I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, and they shall respond to the earth;

In the sacrifices of my gifts they sacrificed flesh and ate; but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.

Ephraim is given over to idols; leave him.

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he wanted to walk after commandments.

For I will take away the names of Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no longer be remembered by their name.

Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the murderer.

By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.

yea, he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets.

And the altars of Aven shall be destroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, and they rebelled against me.

for Israel has turned away as a wild heifer; shall the LORD now feed them as rams in a large place?

I will even betroth thee unto me in faith: and thou shalt know the LORD.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and with his strength he overcame the angel;

The LORD also has a controversy with Judah to visit Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the sons shall come trembling from the west.

Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.

and the earth shall respond to the wheat and the wine and the oil; and they shall respond to Jezreel.

And Ephraim shall see his sickness and Judah his wound; then Ephraim shall go to the Assyrian and shall send to King Jareb; yet he shall not be able to heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

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

But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for his wife, and for his wife he was a pastor.

Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.

Give them, O LORD, that which thou must give them; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Their heart has wandered; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall destroy their statues.

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore him a son.

As they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

As a bird they shall move speedily out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Therefore the earth shall mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; and even the fishes of the sea shall be caught.

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

Even with all this I guided the feet of this same Ephraim, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I cared for them.

But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.

And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.

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

but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

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 there shall be no one left to escape.

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

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to be converted.

It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jareb: Ephraim shall be ashamed, and Israel shall be confused at his own counsel.

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

Certainly man does not contend with nor reprehend man; for thy people are as those that resist the priest.

And the sword shall fall upon his cities and shall consume his villages and devour them because of their own counsels.

As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the surface of the waters.

The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death; O death, I will be thy end; O Sheol, I will be thy destruction. Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

And I shall chastise them as I desire; and the peoples shall gather themselves over them, when they shall be bound in their two furrows.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and an homer and a half of barley:

and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: that thy righteousness be as the light that goes forth.

The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, for joy, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved the salary of a harlot upon every threshing floor.

They have reigned, but not by me; they have made dominion, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols that they may be cut off.

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me.

When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.

And we shall know and follow on in knowing the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

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

Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.

They returned, but not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

They will not think about returning unto their God; for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they do not know the LORD.

I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou dost commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

They are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.

Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

And in killing sacrifices ye have descended into the depths; therefore, I shall be the correction of them all.

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

With all this, the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we have known thee.

Sow yourselves unto righteousness, reap yourselves unto mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is the time to seek the LORD until he comes and teaches you righteousness.

Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

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

Israel has cast off the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is no one among them that calls unto me.

O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

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

For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

They have arrived at the depths, they have corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sin.

Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt know no God other than me, nor any other saviour but me.

After two days he shall give us life: in the third day he will resurrect us, and we shall live in his sight.

They shall not remain in the land of the LORD; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt and to Assyria where they shall eat unclean food.

For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king and without Lord and without sacrifice and without image, and without ephod and without teraphim;

For, behold, they have left because of the destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall possess in inheritance that which is desirable of their silver; thorns shall grow up in their dwellings.

The watchman of Ephraim regarding my God, the prophet, is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, hatred in the house of his God.

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

They shall not pour out wine unto the LORD, neither shall he take pleasure in their sacrifices; as the bread of mourners shall they be unto them; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall not enter into the house of the LORD because of their soul.

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

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

I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall flourish as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Therefore, behold, I will induce her and bring her into the wilderness and speak unto her heart.

Samaria shall be condemned; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open.

Ephraim shall then say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him and gaze upon him; I will be unto him like a green fir tree; of me shall thy fruit be found.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps and will rend the veil of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them apart.

And it shall be in that time, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me My Husband, and shalt no longer call me Baali.

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

Then the LORD said unto me again, Go, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.

When Ephraim spoke everyone feared, he was exalted in Israel; but he was found guilty in Baal and died.

His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

O Israel, thou hast caused thyself to become lost, but in me is thine help.

And now they sin more and more, and of their silver they have made molten images according to their own intelligence, idols, all of it the work of the craftsmen; they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Those that shall sit under his shadow shall return; they shall be given life as the wheat, and they shall flourish as the vine; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Therefore they shall be as the morning mist and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

I gave thee a king in my anger and took him away in my wrath.

In their pastures, they filled themselves; they were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; for this reason they have forgotten me.

The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he is an unwise son; for a long time now he should not have stopped short at the very breaking forth of birth.

I knew thee in the wilderness, in the dry land.

Where is thy king, that may save thee with all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou didst say, Give me a king and princes?

Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a tiger in the way I will observe them:

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.