and idolatry of the people. and feal the book, even to the time of the end: many thall run to and fro, and knowledge thall be increafed. SThen I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this fide of the bank of the river, and the other on that fide of the bank of the river. 6 And one faid to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long ball it be to the end of thefe wonders 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his lett hand unto heaven, and fware by him that liveth for ever, that it fall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he thall have accomplished to featter the power of the holy people, all thefe things thall be finished. 8 And I heard, but I undernood not: then faid I, O my Lord, what fall be the end of thefe things? 9 And he faid, Go thy way, Daniel: for A the great prince which standeth for the the words are clofed up and lealed till the 10 Many fhall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked thall do wicked ly: and none of the wicked fhall understand but the wife fhall understand. 11 And from the time that the daily Jacri. fice thall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh defolate fet up, there fall be thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Bletfed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be for thou halt reft, and ftand in thy lot at the end of the days. Hofea, to fhew God's judgment for fpiritual whoredom, taketh Gomer, 4 and hath by her Jezreel, 6 Lo-rubamah, 8 and Lo-ammi. 10 The refloration of Judah and Ifrael. THE word of the LORD that came unto Hofea, the fon of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the fon of Joath, king of Ifrael. 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hofea. And the LORD faid to Hofea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a fon. 4 And the LORD faid unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the houfe of Jehu, and will caufe to cease the kingdom of the house of Ifrael. 5 And it fhall come to pafs at that day, that I will break the bow of Ifrael in the valley of Jezreel. 6 And the conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God faid unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the houfe of Ifrael; but I will utterly take them away. 7 But 1 will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will fave them by the LORD their God, and will not fave them by bow nor by fword, nor by battle, by horfes, nor by horfemen. 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhs mah, the conceived and bare a fon. 9 Then faid God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Ifrael thall be as the fand of the fea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it fhall come to pafs, that in the place where it was faid unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be faid unto them, Te are the fons of the living God. 11 Then fhall the children of Judah and the children of Ifrael be gathered together, and appoint themfelves one head, and they that? come up out of the land: for great ball be the day of Jezreel. CHAP. II. Ifrael's deliverance Chap. iil, Iv. is forefbewn. the day that she was born, and make her as 22 And the earth fhall hear the corn, and a wilderness, and fet her like a dry land, and the wine, and the oil; and they fhall hear day her with thirst. Jezreel. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whore doms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: the that conceived them hath done thame. fully for the said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, the the fhall not find her paths. 7 And the fhail follow after her lovers, but the fhall not overtake them; and the thall feek them, but fhall not find them: then fhall the fay, I will go and return to my firft husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For the did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her filver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the reafon thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her na kedness. 10 And now will I discover her lewdnefs In the fight of her lovers, and none shall de. liver her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to ceafe, her feart days, her new moons, and her fabbaths, and all her folemn feafts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof the hath faid, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me : and I will make them a foreft, and the beafts of the field fhall eat them. 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein the burned incenfe to them, and the decked herfelf with her earrings and her jewels, and the went after her lovers, and forgat me, faith the LORD. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and the thall fing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when the came up out of the land of Egypt. 16. And it thall be at that day, faith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beafts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the fword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down fafely. 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteoufnefs, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfuluefs: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, I will hear, faith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 23 And I will fow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will fay to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall fay, Thou art my God. CHAP. III. 1 By the expiation of an adulterefs, 4 is fhew. ed the defolation of Ifrael before their re floration. THEN faid the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulterefs, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Ifrael, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of filver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: 3 And I faid unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou fhalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: fo will I also be for thee. 4 For the children of Ifrael fhall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a facrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and with out teraphim: 5 Afterward fhall the children of Ifrael return, and feek the LORD their God, and David their king: and fhall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. CHAP. IV. I God's judgments against the fins of the peo ple, 6 and of the priefs. 15 Judah is exborted to take warning by Ifrael's calamity. HE EAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Ifrael: for the LORD hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, becaule there is no truth, nor mercy, ncr know. ledge of God in the land. 2 by fwearing, and lying, and killing, and flealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore fhall the land mourn, and eve. ry one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the fea alfo shall be taken away. 4 Yet let no man ftrive, nor reprove an other for thy people are as they that ftrive with the prieft. 5 Therefore fhalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet alfo fhall tall with thee in the night, and I will deftroy thy mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou haft rejected knowledge, I will alfo reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: feeing thou hast forgot. ten the law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, fo they finned against me: therefore will I change their glory into thame. 8 They eat up the fin of my people, and they fet their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there thall be, like people, like priest and I will punith them for their ways, and reward them their doings. 10 For they shall eat, and not have e nough; they thall commit whoredom, and fhall not increafe; because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 14. Whore. God's judgments, &c. HOSEA. Exhortation to repentance. II Whoredom and wine and new wine judgment, because he willingly walked after take away the heart. the commandment. 12 My people ask counfel at their flocks, and their itaff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caufed them to err; and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They facrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incenfe upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters thall commit whoredom, and your poules fhall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your fpoufes when they commit adultery: for themselves are feparated with whores, and they facrifice with harlots: there ore the people that doth not underftand fhall fall. 15 Though thou, Ifrael, play the haric, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor (wear, The LORD liveth. 16 For Ifrael lideth back as a backfliding heifer now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drink is four: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with thame do love, Give ye. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their facrifices. from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten itrange children: now thall a month devour them with their portions. 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim fhall be defolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Ifrael have I made known that which thall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the hound: therefore 1 will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppreffed and broken in 12 Therefore will I be un Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 13 When Ephraim faw his fickness, and Judah fare his wound, then went Ephram to the Allyrian, and fent to king Jarch: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house ei Judah: 1, even 1, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none fhall rescue him. 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and feek my face: in their affliction they will feek me early. CHAP VI. 1 An exhortation to repentance. 4 A complaint of their untowaränejs and iniquity. OMF, and let us return unto the LORD: COM ke hath toin, and he will heal us; he hath fmitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us in the third day he will raife us up, and we thail live in his fight. 3 Then thall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he thall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 40 Ephraim, what fhall I do unto thee! O Judah, what thall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have 1 hewed them by the prophets; I have flain them by the words of my month: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth." 6 For I defired mercy, and not facrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they, like men, have tranfgreffed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work ini. quity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, fo the company of priests murder in the way by confent; for they commit lewdrefs. 10I have feen an horrible thing in the house of Ifrael: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Ifrael is defiled. 11 Alfo, O udah, he hath fet an barveft for thee, when returned the captivity of my people. CHAP. VII. reproof for manifold fins. 11 God's surath againg them for their bypocrify; THEN I would have healed Ifracl, then WH the iniquity of Ephraim was dilco. vered, and the wickednefs of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief com. eth ir, and the troop of robbers fpoileth without.. 2 And they confider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have befet them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, arbo ceafeth from raising af ter he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. God threateneth Ifrael Chap. viii, ix. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him fick with bottles of wine; he #tretched out his hand with fcorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker fleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire." 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. 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of Ifrael teftifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor feek him for all this. 11Ephraim alfo is like a filly dove with out heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Affyria. 12 When they fhall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chaftife them, as their congregation hath hoard. 13 Woe unto them! forthey have fled from me: deftruction unto them! because they have tranfgreffed againit me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they affemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. 15 Though I have bound and ftrengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mifchier a gainst me. 16 They return, but not to the Moft High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes fhall fall by the fword for the rage of their tongue: this ball be their derinion in the land of Egypt. CHAP. VIII. 1, 12 Destruction is threatened for their impiety, 5 and idolatry. SET the trumpet to thy mouth. He ball come as an eagle againft the house of the LORD, because they have tranfgreifed my covenant, and trefpaffed against my law. 2 Ifrael thall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Ifrael hath caft off the thing that is good: the enemy fhall purfue him. 4 They have fet up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew if not: of their filver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caft thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: How long will it be ere they attain to innocency! 6 For from Ifrael was it alto: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of samaria fhall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have fown the wind, and they fhall reap the whirlwind: it hath no ftalk: the bud fhall yield no meal: if fo be it yield, the ftrangers fhall fwallow it up. 8 Ifrael is fwallowed up: now fhall they be among the Gentiles as à veel wherein is Do pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Affyria, a wild als alone by himfelf: Ephraim hath hired lovers. for their fins. nations, now will I gather them, and they 10 Yea, though they have hired among the that forrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to fin, altars fhall be unto him to fin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They facrifice flesh for the facrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and vifit their fins: they fhallreturn to Egypt. 14 For Ifrael hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath mul tiplied fenced cities: but I will fend a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. CHA P. IX. The difirefs and captivity of Ifrael for their jins and idolatry. REJOICE not, o Ifrael, for joy, as ofhay people for thou haft gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn floor. 2 The floor and the wineprefs fhall not feed them, and the new wine thall fail in her. 3 They thall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim hall return to Egypt, and they thall eat unclean things in Affyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to che LORD, neither thall they be pleating unto him: their facrifices fhall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that cat thereof fhall be polluted: for their bread for their foul thalf not come into the houfe of the LORD. 5 What will ye do in the folemn day, and in the day of the feart of the I ORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of deftruc tion: Egypt fhall gather them up, Memphis fhall bury them: the pleasant places for their filver, nettles fhall poffets them: thorns ball be in their tabernacles. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Ifracl fhall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a fnare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the houfe of his God. as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, remember their iniquity, he will visit their fins. 翠 10 I found Ifrael like grapes in the wilder nefs: I faw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and feparated themfelves unto that thame; and their abcminations were according as they loved. away like a bird, trom the birth, and from 11 As for Ephraim, their glory fhall fy the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, be a man left: yea, woe allo to them when I yet will I bereave them, that there fhall not depart from them! a pleasant place: but Ephraim fhall bring 13 Ephraim, as I faw Tyrus, is planted in forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wiltthon gne: Bb give give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal for idolatry and ingratitude. CHAP. XI. 1 The ingratitude of Ifrael unto God for bis benents: 5 their judgment. there I hated then for the wickedness of WHEN Ifrael was a child, then I loved their doings I will drive them out of mine houfe, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. 16 Ephraim is fmitten, their root is dried up, they fall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I flay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will caft them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they fhall be wanderers among the nations. СНА Р. X. Ifrael is reproved and threatened for their "impiety and idolatry. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himfelf: according to the mul titude of his fruit he hath increafed the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 2 Their heart is divided; now thall they be found faulty; he thall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they fhall fay, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then fhould a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, fwearing falfely in making a covenant: thus judgment fpringeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the held. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria fhall fear becaufe of the calves of Beth-aven: 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. 6 It thall be alfo carried unto Affyria for a prefen: to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive fhame, and Ifrael shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 8 The high places alfo of Aven, the fin of Ifrael, thall be dentroyed: the thorn and the thittle fall come up on their altars; and they fhall fay to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 90 Ifrael, thou haft finned from the days him, and called my fon out of Egypt 24s hey called them, fo they went from them: they facrificed unto Baalim, and burned incenfe to graven images. ed them. I taught Ephraim alfo to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that i heal4 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." 5 He thall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Affyrian fhall be his king, be cause they retufed to return. 6 And the fword fhall abide on his cities, and fhall confume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counfels. 7 And my people are bent to backfliding from me: though they called them to the Moft High, none at all would exalt him. 8 How fhall I give thee up, Ephraim? bow fhall I deliver thee, Ifrael? how thall I make thee as Admah? bow fhall I fet thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fiercenefs of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midft of thee: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They fhall walk after the LORD: he thall roar like a lion: when he thall roar, then the children thall tremble from the west. 11 They fhall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Af fyria and I will place them in their houses, faith the LORD. 12 Fphraim compaffeth me about with lies, and the houfe of Ifrael with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the faints. CHAP. XII. 1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judab, and Facob. 6 An exhortation to repentance. Phraim feedeth on wind, and followeth of Gibeah: there they flood: the battle in Eater the cart wind: he daily increafeth Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 It is in my defire that I fhould chaftife them; and the people fhall be gathered against them, when they fhall bind themfelves in their two furrows. 11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I pasted over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah fhall plough, and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to feek the LORD, till he come and rain righteoufnefs upon you. 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the truit or lies: because thou didst truft in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 4 Therefore shall a tumult arife among thy people, and all thy fortreffes fhall be spoiled, as Shalman fpoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was das hed in pieces upon ber children. 15 So thall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning thall the kam ifrael utterly be cut off. Iles and defolation; and they do make a covenant with the Affyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. 2 The LORD hath alfo a controverfy with Judah, and will punith Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompenfe him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made fupplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; Even the LORD God of hofts; the LORD is his memorial. 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. he is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to opprefs. 8 And Ephraim faid, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out fubflare: in all my la bours they thall find none iniuity in me that were an 9 And |