Hosea 13
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13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel;
But he trespassed through
aBaal and died.
Hosea 13
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13:2
And now they sin more and more
And make molten images for themselves out of their silver,
Idols according to their own understanding,
All of it the work of craftsmen.
Of them they say,
Let the men who sacrifice
Kiss the calves.
Hosea 13
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13:3
Therefore they will be like a morning cloud
And like dew that departs early,
Like chaff driven by a storm wind from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a window vent.
Hosea 13
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13:4
But I have been Jehovah your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were to know no god except Me,
For there is no
asavior besides Me.
Hosea 13
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13:5
I knew you in the
awilderness,
In the land of great drought.
Hosea 13
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13:6
According to their pasturage they became
afull;
They became full, and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they have
bforgotten Me.
Hosea 13
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13:7
Thus I will be to them like a
alion;
Like a leopard I will watch
them along the way.
Hosea 13
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13:8
I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear away the covering of their heart;
And I will devour them there like a lioness;
The beast of the field will tear them to pieces.
Hosea 13
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13:9
It is your destruction, O Israel,
That you are against Me, against your help.
Hosea 13
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13:10
Where then is your king,
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you said,
aGive me a king and some princes?
Hosea 13
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13:11
I gave you a
1aking in My anger
And
btook him away in My overflowing wrath.
Hosea 13
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13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is laid up in store.
Hosea 13
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13:13
The apains of a woman giving birth will come upon him.
He is an unwise son;
For he should not delay at the time
The children break forth.
Hosea 13
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13:14
From the power of
1Sheol I will ransom them;
From death I will redeem them.
bWhere are your plagues, O death?
Where is your destruction, O
1Sheol?
2Repentance will be hidden from My eyes.
Hosea 13
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13:15
Even if he should be fruitful among
his brothers,
An east wind will come,
A wind of Jehovah
Coming up from the wilderness,
And his spring will become dry,
And his fountain will be dried up.
He will plunder the treasure
Of every desirable vessel.
Hosea 13
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13:16
aSamaria will be guilty,
For she rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
Their children will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped up.
