The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah will say to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of fornication and children of fornication; for the land committing fornication, will commit fornication from after Jehovah.

And it was in that day and I broke the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

And I will compassionate the house of Judah, and I saved them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow and by sword, and by battle, by horses and by horsemen.

And he will say; Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I will not be to you.

And the number of the sons of Israel was as the sand of the sea which shall not be measured and shall not be numbered: and it was in the place which it shall be said to them, Ye are not my people, and it shall be said to them, Ye the sons of the living God.

And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.

And I put away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently.

And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley:

And saying to her, Many days thou shalt well with me; and thou shalt not commit fornication, and thou shalt not be for a man: and also I am for thee.

For this the land shall mourn, and every one in it languished with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens; and also the fish of the sea shall be taken away.

And thou wert weak in the day, and the prophet also was weak with thee by night, and I destroyed thy mother.

For they ate and they shall not be satisfied, and they committed fornication and they shall not spread abroad: for with Jehovah they left off to watch.

I will not review over your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and over your brides when they shall commit adultery: fur they will separate themselves with harlots, and with prostitutes will they sacrifice: and the people will not understand, they shall be thrown down.

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

And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face, and Israel and Ephraim shall be weak in their iniquity; Judah also being weak with them.

Ephraim shall be for desolation in the day of chastisement: in the tribes of Israel I made known the faithful thing.

And Ephraim will see his disease and Judah his wound, and Ephraim will go to Assur, and he will send to king Jareb: and he will not be able to heal for you, and he will not remove from you the wound.

I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.

For this I cut off by the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments the light going forth.

And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me.

By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

They will turn back not to the Highest: they were as a bow of deceit: their chiefs shall fall by the sword from the wrath of their tongue: this their derision in the land of Egypt

The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws.

Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?

For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

Also if they will hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and shall they be weak a little from the lifting up of the king of the princes.

They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah.

I found Israel as grapes in the desert; as the first fruit in the fig-tree in her beginning I saw your fathers: they went to Baal-Peor, and they will separate themselves to shame, and their abominable things will be according to their love.

God will reject them, for they heard not to him: and they will be wandering about among the nations.

Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images

Also it shall be brought to Assur a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall take shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.

In my coming and I shall correct them, and the peoples shall be gathered together against them in their being bound to their two sins.

And Ephraim a heifer being taught, loving to tread out the grain, and I passed over upon the good of her neck: I will cause Ephraim to ride; Judah shall be silent, and Jacob shall be strong to him.

And an uproar arose among thy people, and all thy fortifications shall be laid waste, as Shaman laid waste the house of the ambush of God in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon the sons.

And I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; and they knew not that I healed them.

I will draw them with the cords of man, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as those lifting up the yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will gently give them to eat

He shall not turn back to the land of Egypt, and Assur shall be his king, for they refused to turn back.

Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt

In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.

And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.

And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.

And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was perserved

According to the word Ephraim being terrified be was lifted up in Israel; and he will transgress in Baal and die.

For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.

According to their pasture, and they will be satiated; they were satiated, and their heart will be lifted up: for this they forgat me.

And I will be to them as a lion: as a panther upon the way I will look around.

Now will I be thy king, and he shall save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Thou shalt give to me a king and princes.

From the hand of hades will I redeem them; from death will I ransom them: I will be thy words, O death, I will be thy cutting off, O hades: consolation will be hid from mine eyes.

If he shall bear fruit in the midst of his brethren, the east wind shall come, the wind of Jehovah came up from the desert, and his fountain shall be dried up, and he shall lay waste his place of fountains: he shall plunder the treasure of all vessels of desire.

Shomeron shall be guilty, for she rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and they having conceived shall be cleft asunder.

Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon.

His sprouts shall go, and his strength shall be as the olive tree, and the odor to him as Lebanon.

Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.