13Hosea 13

1When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.Select Hosea 13:1

2And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding--idols, A work of artisans--all of it, Of them they say, who are sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss.'Select Hosea 13:2

3Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.Select Hosea 13:3

4And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour--there is none save Me.Select Hosea 13:4

5I--I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.Select Hosea 13:5

6According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,Select Hosea 13:6

7And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.Select Hosea 13:7

8I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.Select Hosea 13:8

9And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.Select Hosea 13:9

10Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me is thy help, Where is thy king now--And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?'Select Hosea 13:10

11I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.Select Hosea 13:11

12Bound up is the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden is his sin,Select Hosea 13:12

13Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He is a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.Select Hosea 13:13

14From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.Select Hosea 13:14

15Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It--it spoileth a treasure--every desirable vessel.Select Hosea 13:15

16Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!Select Hosea 13:16