Book of Hosea, Chapter 13
Chapter 13 of Hosea
he was exalted in Israel;
but he incurred guilt through Ba′al and died.
and make for themselves molten images,
idols skilfully made of their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
Sacrifice to these, they say.[a]
Men kiss calves!
or like the dew that goes early away,
like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.
from the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
and besides me there is no saviour.
in the land of drought;
they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
therefore they forgot me.
like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
as a wild beast would rend them.
who[c] can help you?
where are all[e] your princes,[f] to defend you[g]—
those of whom you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
and I have taken them away in my wrath.
his sin is kept in store.
but he is an unwise son;
for now he does not present himself
at the mouth of the womb.
Shall I redeem them from Death?
O Death, where[h] are your plagues?
O Sheol, where[i] is your destruction?
Compassion is hid from my eyes.
the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come,
rising from the wilderness;
and his fountain shall dry up,
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip his treasury
of every precious thing.
because she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword,
their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.FOOTNOTES
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