Osee

Chapter 13

The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day redeem them.

  1. 1

    When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

  2. 2

    And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver, as the likeness of idols, the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.

  3. 3

    Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  4. 4

    But I am the Lord, thy God, from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.

  5. 5

    I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.

  6. 6

    According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

  7. 7

    And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

  8. 8

    I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.

  9. 9

    Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.

  10. 10

    Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes.

  11. 11

    I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

  12. 12

    The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

  13. 13

    The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.

  14. 14

    I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes,

  15. 15

    Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert: and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.