HOSEA 6 "A CALL to REPENTANCE; IMPENITENCE of ISRAEL & JUDAH"
recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK
6:1 A Call to Repentance
Come, and let us return to the LORD;For He has torn, but He will heal us;He has stricken, but He will bind us up. 2 After two days He will revive us;On the third day He will raise us up,That we may live in His sight. 3 Let us know,Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD.His going forth is established as the morning;He will come to us like the rain,Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
4 Impenitence of Israel and Judah
"O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?O Judah, what shall I do to you?For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,And like the early dew it goes away. 5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,I have slain them by the words of My mouth;And your judgments are like light that goes forth. 6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 "But like men they transgressed the covenant;There they dealt treacherously with Me. 8 Gilead is a city of evildoers And defiled with blood. 9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;Surely they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:There is the harlotry of Ephraim;Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,When I return the captives of My people.
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HOSEA 7 "ISRAEL HAS REBELLED AGAINST GOD; FUTILE RELIANCE on the NATIONS" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK
HOSEA 7 "ISRAEL HAS REBELLED AGAINST GOD; FUTILE RELIANCE on the NATIONS" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK
7:1 Israel Has Rebelled Against God
"When I would have healed Israel,Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,And the wickedness of Samaria.For they have committed fraud;A thief comes in;A band of robbers takes spoil outside. 2 They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness;Now their own deeds have surrounded them;They are before My face. 3 They make a king glad with their wickedness,And princes with their lies.
4 "They are all adulterers.Like an oven heated by a baker — He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,Until it is leavened. 5 In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine;He stretched out his hand with scoffers. 6 They prepare their heart like an oven,While they lie in wait;Their baker sleeps all night;In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot, like an oven,And have devoured their judges;All their kings have fallen.None among them calls upon Me.
8 "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;Ephraim is a cake unturned. 9 Aliens have devoured his strength,But he does not know it;Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,Yet he does not know it. 10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,But they do not return to the LORD their God,Nor seek Him for all this.
11 Futile Reliance on the Nations
"Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense — They call to Egypt,They go to Assyria. 12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;I will bring them down like birds of the air;I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.
13 "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!Destruction to them,Because they have transgressed against Me!Though I redeemed them,Yet they have spoken lies against Me. 14 They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds.
"They assemble together for grain and new wine,They rebel against Me; 15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,Yet they devise evil against Me; 16 They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow.Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue.This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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