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Jeremiah 32:30For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands—an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 32:31‘For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day—to turn it aside from before My face,Jeremiah 50:4In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Jehovah, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Jehovah their God they seek.Jeremiah 50:5To Zion they ask the way, Thitherward are their faces: Come in, and we are joined unto Jehovah, A covenant age-during—not forgotten.Jeremiah 50:6A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.Hosea 1:1A word of Jehovah that hath been unto 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:Hosea 1:2The commencement of Jehovah’s speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah saith unto Hosea, ‘Go, take to thee a woman of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms, for utterly go a-whoring doth the land from after Jehovah.’Hosea 1:3And he goeth and taketh Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceiveth and beareth to him a son;Hosea 1:4and Jehovah saith unto him, ‘Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;Hosea 1:5and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.’Hosea 1:6And she conceiveth again, and beareth a daughter, and He saith to him, ‘Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I add no more to pity the house of Israel, for I do utterly take them away;Hosea 1:7and the house of Judah I pity, and have saved them by Jehovah their God, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.’Hosea 1:8And she weaneth Lo-Ruhamah, and conceiveth, and beareth a son;Hosea 1:9and He saith, ‘Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;Hosea 3:5Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.Hosea 4:6Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!Hosea 4:10And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.Hosea 4:16For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.Hosea 5:1Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.Hosea 5:2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.Hosea 5:3I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.Hosea 5:4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.Hosea 5:5And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them.Hosea 5:6With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.Hosea 5:7Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.Hosea 5:8Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin.Hosea 5:9Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.Hosea 5:10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.Hosea 5:11Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.Hosea 5:12And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.Hosea 5:13And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.Hosea 5:14For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I—I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.Hosea 5:15I go—I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!’Hosea 6:1‘Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.Hosea 6:2He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.Hosea 6:3And we know—we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain—sprinkling earth.’Hosea 6:4What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early—going.Hosea 6:5Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.Hosea 6:6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.Hosea 6:7And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.Hosea 6:8Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.Hosea 6:9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder—the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.Hosea 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim—defiled is Israel.Hosea 6:11Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!Hosea 8:14And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!Hosea 9:1‘Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.Hosea 9:2Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,Hosea 9:3They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim to Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.Hosea 9:4They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices are as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread is for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.Hosea 9:5What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah’s festival?Hosea 9:6For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them—a thorn is in their tents.Hosea 9:7Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred.Hosea 9:8Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God.Hosea 9:9They have gone deep—have done corruptly, As in the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.Hosea 9:10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They—they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.Hosea 9:11Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.Hosea 9:12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.Hosea 9:13Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons.Hosea 9:14Give to them, Jehovah—what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.Hosea 9:15All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates.