Daily Reading

Hosea 6:1-10:15

6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will
raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his
going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto
us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I
do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as
the early dew it goeth away.

6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain
them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the
light that goeth forth.

6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
God more than burnt offerings.

6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
they dealt treacherously against me.

6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is
polluted with blood.

6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of
priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there
is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the captivity of my people.

7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.
7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all
their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about;
they are before my face.

7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
princes with their lies.

7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,
who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough,
until it be leavened.

7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with
bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles
they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the
morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges;
all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that
calleth unto me.

7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is
a cake not turned.

7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it
not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he
knoweth not.

7:10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do
not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call
to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will
bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise
them, as their congregation hath heard.

7:13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto
them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have
redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they
howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and
wine, and they rebel against me.

7:15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do
they imagine mischief against me.

7:16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a
deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the
rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the
land of Egypt.

8:1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy
shall pursue him.

8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made
princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold
have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is
kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to
innocency?

8:6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it;
therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be
broken in pieces.

8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so
be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles
as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

8:10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I
gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of
the king of princes.

8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall
be unto him to sin.

8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but
they were counted as a strange thing.

8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine
offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now
will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they
shall return to Egypt.

8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire
upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new
wine shall fail in her.

9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in
Assyria.

9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither
shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be
unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall
be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into
the house of the LORD.

9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the
feast of the LORD?

9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall
gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places
for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be
in their tabernacles.

9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are
come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the
spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.

9:8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet
is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the
house of his God.

9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will
visit their sins.

9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto
that shame; and their abominations were according as they
loved.

9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,
from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave
them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also
to them when I depart from them!

9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:
but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated
them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out
of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes
are revolters.

9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear
no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even
the beloved fruit of their womb.

9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken
unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

10:1 Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he
shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

10:3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared
not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a
covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows
of the field.

10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves
of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and
the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory
thereof, because it is departed from it.

10:6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to
king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be
ashamed of his own counsel.

10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the
water.

10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be
destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their
altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to
the hills, Fall on us.

10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there
they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of
iniquity did not overtake them.

10:10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the
people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind
themselves in their two furrows.

10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and
loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair
neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and
Jacob shall break his clods.

10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break
up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till
he come and rain righteousness upon you.

10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye
have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy
way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all
thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel
in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon
her children.

10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great
wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be
cut off.



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