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And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
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So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley
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And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife and so will I be to you.
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For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
5
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
Hosea 4
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Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
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There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
3
Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
4
Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
5
You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.
6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
7
Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me I will let their glory be changed into shame.
8
The sin of my people is like food to them and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
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And the priest will be like the people I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.
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They will have food, but they will not be full they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
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My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
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They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
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I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
15
Do not you, O Israel, come into error do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
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For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.
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Ephraim is joined to false gods let him be.
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Their drink has become bitter they are completely false her rulers take pleasure in shame.
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They are folded in the skirts of the wind they will be shamed because of their offerings.
Hosea 5
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Give ear to this, O priests give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king for you are to be judged you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
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They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
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I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
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Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
5
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him he has taken himself out of their view.
7
They have been false to the Lord they have given birth to strange children now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
8
Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.
9
Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.
10
The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
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Ephraim is troubled he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
12
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
13
When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.
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For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah I, even I, will give him wounds and go away I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
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I will go back to my place till they are made waste in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Hosea 6
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Come, let us go back to the Lord for he has given us wounds and he will make us well he has given blows and he will give help.
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After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.
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And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
4
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
5
So I have had it cut in stones I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth
6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement there they were false to me.
8
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
9
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
10
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean
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And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.
