Daily Reading

Hosea 11:1-14:9

11:1 When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they
sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but
they knew not that I healed them.

11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I
was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I
laid meat unto them.

11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the
Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume
his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they
called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver
thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set
thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings
are kindled together.

11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the
Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the
city.

11:10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion:
when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the
west.

11:11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove
out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their
houses, saith the LORD.

11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of
Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is
faithful with the saints.

12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
12:2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will
punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings
will he recompense him.

12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his
strength he had power with God:

12:4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept,
and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and
there he spake with us;

12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment,
and wait on thy God continually.

12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his
hand: he loveth to oppress.

12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in
me that were sin.

12:9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt
will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of
the solemn feast.

12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity:
they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as
heaps in the furrows of the fields.

12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel
served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and
by a prophet was he preserved.

12:14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore
shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his
Lord return unto him.

13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten
images of their silver, and idols according to their own
understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of
them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the
early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with
the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the
chimney.

13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and
thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside
me.

13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
drought.

13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they
forgotten me.

13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by
the way will I observe them:

13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her
whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will
I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine
help.

13:10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save
thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst,
Give me a king and princes?

13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in
my wrath.

13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he
is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place
of the breaking forth of children.

13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will
redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O
grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes.

13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind
shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the
wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain
shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant
vessels.

13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled
against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants
shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be
ripped up.

14:1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,
Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we
render the calves of our lips.

14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses:
neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are
our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for
mine anger is turned away from him.

14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the
lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall
revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof
shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?
I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir
tree. From me is thy fruit found.

14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are
right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors
shall fall therein.


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