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 he will go and take Gomer, daughter of Diblaim; and she will conceive and bring forth to him a son.

And Jehovah will say to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little and I reviewed the bloods of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And she will yet conceive and bring forth a daughter. And he will say to him, Call her name, Not being compassionated: for I will no more add to compassionate the house of Israel; for taking away, I will take them away.

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 she will wean the Not being compassionated, and she will conceive and bring forth a son.

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

And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications

For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.

Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.

And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now.

And she knew not that I gave to her grain, and new wine, and new oil. and I multiplied silver to her, and gold they made for Baal.

For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness.

And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand.

And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment

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 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 it was in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth;

And the earth shall answer the grain and the new wine and the new oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.

And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.

And Jehovah will say to me, Yet go, love a woman loving evil and an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, and they took to other gods and love raisin-cakes.

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.

My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I

As they multiplied so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into dishonor.

They will eat up the sin of my people, and they will lift up their soul to their iniquity.

And it was as the people so the priest: and I reviewed upon them their way; and their doings I will turn back to them.

Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.

My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.

Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.

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.

For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

And the rowers made deep the slaughter, and I a correction to them all.

They will not give their doings to turn back to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not Jehovah.

With their sheep and with their oxen they will go to seek Jehovah; and they shall not find; he withdrew himself from them.

The princes of Judah were as they removing the bound: upon them will I pour out my wrath as water.

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.

For I as the lion to Ephraim, and as the young lion to the house of Judah I, I will rend and go away; I will take away and none delivering.

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.

Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.

He will revive us after two days: in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live before him.

As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.

As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without

And they will not say to their heart, I remembered all their evil: now their doings surrounded them; they were before my face.

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

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

For they drew near their heart as a furnace in their lying in wait: all the night their baker slept; in the morning it burnt as the fire of flame.

They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me.

Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned.

And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. and sought him not in all this

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

When they shall go I will spread my net upon them; as birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will correct them when hearing to their assembly.

Wo! to them, for they fled from me: destruction to them because they transgressed against me: and I will redeem them and they spake falsehoods against me.

And they cried not to me in their heart, for they shall wail upon their beds: for corn and new wine they will assemble themselves together; they will turn aside against me..

And I corrected and strengthened their arms, and they will purpose evil against me.

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

For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

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.

I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing.

The sacrifices of my gifts they will sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jehovah delighted not in them; now will he remember their iniquity, and he will review their sins: they shall turn back to Egypt

And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces.

Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain.

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.

What will ye do for the day of appointment, and for the day of the festival of Jehovah?

The watchman of Ephraim with God: the prophet the snare of a fowler upon all his ways; destruction in the house of his God.

They made deep, they were corrupted as the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquity, he will review their sins.

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.

All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the evil of their doings I will drive them out from my house, I will not add to love them: all their chiefs are turning away.

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

Israel an empty vine, he will place fruit to himself: according to the multitude to his fruit he multiplied to his altars; according to the goodness of his land they made good pillars.

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

For now they will say, No king to us because we feared not Jehovah; and what shall the king do to us?

For the calves of the house of vanity they shall fear dwelling in Shomeron: for his people mourned over it, and his priests will exult over it, for its glory, for it was removed from it

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.

They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense.

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

And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.

I will not do the burning of mine anger, I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come into the city.

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

And a contention to Jehovah with Judah, and to review Jacob according to his ways; he will turn back to him according to his doings.

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 am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will even cause thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointment

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

And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.

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

And now they will add to sin, and they will make to them a molten image of their silver, in their understanding images the work of artificers all of it: they saying to them, The men sacrificing shall kiss the calves.

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.

I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and I will rend the enclosure of their heart, and devour them there as a lion: the beast of the field shall cleave them asunder.

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.

I will give to thee a king in mine anger, and I will take away in my wrath.

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.

Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.

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 heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

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

Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.