The word of Jehovah which was to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel.

For many days shall the sons of Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and it one ephod and teraphim

Afterward the sons of Israel shall turn back and they sought Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they trembled at Jehovah and at his goodness in the last of the days.

Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.

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.

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

The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.

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.

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

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

Shomeron, her king was cut off as chiefs upon the face of the waters.

Thus did the house of God to you from the face of the evil of your evil: in the morning the king of Israel being cut off, was cut off.

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

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.