Hello and welcome to
"His Words Are Life. "
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I'm Kelly Mowrer,
and today we'll be
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reading together
from the Book of Hosea.
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But let's pray before we start.
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Dear heavenly
Father, thank you again
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for how you have kept
each of us for yourself.
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And how you come
and changed our lives.
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Please be with us.
Now as we hear these words
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and change as even
more to be more like you.
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We love you and thank
you for loving us. Amen.
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We're reading in
the book of Hosea,
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Chapter 2
picking up with verse 16.
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And this is King James Version.
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And it shall be at
that day, saith the Lord,
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that thou shalt call me Ishi.
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And shalt call me no more Baali.
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For I will take away the names
of Baalim out of her mouth,
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and they shall no more
be remembered by their name.
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And in that day will I
make a covenant for them
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with the beasts of the field
and with the fowls of heaven,
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and with the
creeping things of the ground,
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and I will break
the bow and the sword
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and the battle out of the earth,
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and will make them
to lie down safely.
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And I will betroth
thee unto me for ever.
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Yea, I will betroth thee
unto me in righteousness,
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and in judgment,
and in lovingkindness,
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and in mercies. I
will even betroth thee
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unto me in faithfulness.
And thou shalt know the Lord.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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I will hear, saith the
Lord, I will hear the heavens,
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and they shall hear the earth.
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And the earth
shall hear the corn,
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and the wine, and the oil.
And they shall hear Jezreel.
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And I will sow her
unto me in the earth,
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and I will have mercy upon
her that had not obtained mercy,
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and I will say to them
which were not my people,
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Thou art my
people, and they shall say,
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Thou art my God.
Reading now in Hosea Chapter 3.
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And this is the
King James Version
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Then said the
Lord unto me, Go yet,
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love a woman
beloved of her friend,
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yet an adulteress,
according to the love
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of the Lord toward
the children of Israel,
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who look to other gods,
and love flagons of wine.
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So I bought her to me
for fifteen pieces of silver,
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and for an homer of barley,
and an half homer of barley.
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And I said unto her,
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hou shalt abide
for me many days,
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thou shalt not play the harlot,
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and thou shalt not
be for another man.
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So will I also be for thee.
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For the children
of Israel shall abide
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many days without a
king, and without a prince,
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and without a
sacrifice, and without an image,
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and without an
ephod, and without teraphim.
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Afterward shall the
children of Israel return,
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and seek the Lord their
God, and David their king,
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and shall fear the Lord
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and his goodness
in the latter days.
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Continuing with Hosea Chapter 4.
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Hear the word of the
Lord, ye children of Israel, for
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the Lord hath a
controversy with the inhabitants
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of the land,
because there is no truth,
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nor mercy, nor
knowledge of God in the land.
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By swearing, and lying,
and killing, and stealing
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and committing
adultery, they break out,
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and blood toucheth blood.
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Therefore shall the land mourn,
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and every one that
dwelleth therein shall languish,
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with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven.
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Yea, the fishes of the
sea also shall be taken away.
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Yet let no man
strive, nor reprove another,
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for thy people are as they
that strive with the priest.
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Therefore shalt
thou fall in the day,
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and the prophet also shall
fall with thee in the night,
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and I will destroy thy mother.
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My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Because thou hast
rejected knowledge,
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I will also reject thee,
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that thou shalt
be no priest to me,
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seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God,
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I will also forget thy children.
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As they were increased,
so they sinned against me.
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Therefore will I
change their glory into shame.
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They eat up the
sin of my people,
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and they set their
heart on their iniquity.
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And there shall be,
like people, like priest,
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and I will punish
them for their ways,
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and reward them their doings.
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For they shall eat,
and not have enough,
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they shall commit whoredom,
and shall not increase.
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Because they have left
off to take heed to the Lord.
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Whoredom and wine and
new wine take away the heart.
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My people ask
counsel at their stocks,
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and their staff
declareth unto them,
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for the spirit of whoredoms
hath caused them to err,
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and they have gone a
whoring from under their God.
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They sacrifice upon
the tops of the mountains,
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and burn incense upon the hills,
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under oaks and poplars and elms,
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because the
shadow thereof is good.
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Therefore your
daughters shall commit whoredom,
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and your spouses
shall commit adultery.
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I will not punish your daughters
when they commit whoredom,
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nor your spouses
when they commit adultery,
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for themselves are
separated with whores,
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and they sacrifice with harlots.
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Therefore the people that
doth not understand shall fall.
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Though thou,
Israel, play the harlot,
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yet let not Judah offend.
And come not ye unto Gilgal,
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neither go ye up to Bethaven,
nor swear, The Lord liveth.
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For Israel slideth back
as a backsliding heifer,
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now the Lord will feed
them as a lamb in a large place.
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Ephraim is joined to
idols, let him alone.
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Their drink is sour,
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they have committed
whoredom continually.
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Her rulers with
shame do love, Give ye.
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The wind hath bound
her up in her wings,
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and they shall be ashamed
because of their sacrifices.
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Continuing in Hosea Chapter 5.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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Hear ye this, O
priests, and hearken,
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ye house of
Israel, and give ye ear,
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O house of the king,
for judgment is toward you,
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because ye have
been a snare on Mizpah,
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and a net spread upon Tabor.
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And the revolters are
profound to make slaughter,
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though I have been
a rebuker of them all.
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I know Ephraim, and
Israel is not hid from me.
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For now, O Ephraim,
thou committest whoredom,
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and Israel is defiled.
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They will not frame their
doings to turn unto their God,
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for the spirit of whoredoms
is in the midst of them,
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and they have
not known the Lord.
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And the pride of Israel
doth testify to his face.
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Therefore shall Israel
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and Ephraim fall
in their iniquity.
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Judah also shall fall with them.
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They shall go with their flocks
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and with their
herds to seek the Lord.
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But they shall not find him.
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He hath withdrawn
himself from them.
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They have dealt
treacherously against the Lord.
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For they have
begotten strange children.
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Now shall a month devour
them with their portions.
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Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,
and the trumpet in Ramah.
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Cry aloud at Bethaven,
after thee, O Benjamin.
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Ephraim shall be
desolate in the day of rebuke.
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Among the tribes of Israel
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have I made known
that which shall surely be.
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The princes of Judah were
like them that remove the bound.
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Therefore I will pour out
my wrath upon them like water.
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Ephraim is oppressed
and broken in judgment,
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because he willingly
walked after the commandment.
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Therefore will I be
unto Ephraim as a moth,
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and to the house of
Judah as rottenness.
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When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah saw his wound,
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then went
Ephraim to the Assyrian,
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and sent to king Jareb.
Yet could he not heal you,
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nor cure you of your wound.
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For I will be
unto Ephraim as a lion,
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and as a young lion
to the house of Judah,
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I, even I, will
tear and go away,
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I will take away, and
none shall rescue him.
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I will go and
return to my place,
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till they
acknowledge their offence,
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and seek my face,
in their affliction
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they will seek me early.
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Reading in Hosea Chapter 6.
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This is the King James Version.
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Come, and let us
return unto the Lord,
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for he hath torn,
and he will heal us.
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He hath smitten,
and he will bind us up.
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After two days
will he revive us,
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in the third day
he will raise us up,
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and we shall live in his sight.
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Then shall we know,
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if we follow on
to know the Lord,
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his going forth is
prepared as the morning,
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and he shall come
unto us as the rain,
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as the latter and
former rain unto the earth.
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O Ephraim, what
shall I do unto thee?
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O Judah, what
shall I do unto thee?
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For your goodness
is as a morning cloud,
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and as the early
dew it goeth away.
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Therefore have I
hewed them by the prophets.
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I have slain them by
the words of my mouth,
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and thy judgments are as
the light that goeth forth.
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For I desired
mercy, and not sacrifice,
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and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings.
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But they like men have
transgressed the covenant.
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There have they dealt
treacherously against me.
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Gilead is a city of
them that work iniquity,
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and is polluted with blood.
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And as troops of
robbers wait for a man,
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so the company of priests
murder in the way by consent,
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for they commit lewdness.
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I have seen an horrible
thing in the house of Israel
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There is the whoredom of
Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he hath
set an harvest for thee,
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when I returned the
captivity of my people.
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Reading in Hosea Chapter 7.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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When I would have healed Israel,
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then the iniquity of
Ephraim was discovered,
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and the wickedness of Samaria,
for they commit falsehood.
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And the thief cometh in,
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and the troop of
robber spoileth without.
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And they consider
not in their hearts
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that I remember
all their wickedness.
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Now their own doings
have beset them about,
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they are before my face.
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They make the king
glad with their wickedness,
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and the princes with their lies.
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They are all adulterers,
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as an oven heated by the baker,
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who ceaseth from
raising after he hath
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kneaded the dough,
until it be leavened.
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In the day of our king
the princes have made him sick
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with bottles of wine.
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He stretched out
his hand with scorners.
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For they have made ready
their heart like an oven,
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whiles they lie in wait. Their
baker sleepeth all the night,
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in the morning it
burneth as a flaming fire.
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They are all hot as an oven,
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and have devoured their judges,
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all their kings are fallen.
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There is none among
them that calleth unto me.
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Ephraim, he hath mixed
himself among the people.
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Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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Strangers have
devoured his strength,
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and he knoweth it not.
Yea, gray hairs are here
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and there upon
him, yet he knoweth not.
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And the pride of
Israel testifieth to his face.
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And they do not
return to the Lord their God,
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nor seek him for all this.
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Ephraim also is like a
silly dove without heart.
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They call to
Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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When they shall go,
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I will spread my net upon them.
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I will bring them down
as the fowls of the heaven.
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I will chastise them, as
their congregation hath heard.
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Woe unto them. For
they have fled from me.
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Destruction unto them!
because they have transgressed
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against me. Though
I have redeemed them,
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yet they have
spoken lies against me.
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And they have not cried
unto me with their heart,
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when they
howled upon their beds.
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They assemble
themselves for corn and wine,
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and they rebel against me.
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Though I have bound and
strengthened their arms,
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yet do they imagine
mischief against me.
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They return, but
not to the most High.
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They are like a deceitful
bow. Their princes shall fall
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by the sword for the
rage of their tongue.
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This shall be their
derision in the land of Egypt.
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Continuing in Hosea Chapter 8.
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And this is the James Version.
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Set the trumpet to thy
mouth. He shall come as an eagle
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against the house of
the Lord, because they have
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transgressed my covenant,
and trespassed against my law.
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Israel shall cry unto
me, My God, we know thee.
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Israel hath cast off
the thing that is good.
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The enemy shall pursue him.
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They have set up
kings, but not by me.
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They have made
princes, and I knew it not.
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Of their silver and their
gold have they made them idols,
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that they may be cut off.
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Thy calf, O
Samaria, hath cast thee off,
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mine anger is
kindled against them.
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How long will it be ere
they attain to innocency?
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For from Israel was it
also. The workman made it.
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Therefore it is not God,
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but the calf of Samaria
shall be broken in pieces.
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For they have sown the wind,
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and they shall reap the
whirlwind. It hath no stalk.
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The bud shall yield no
meal. If so be it yield,
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the strangers
shall swallow it up.
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Israel is swallowed up.
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Now shall they be
among the Gentiles
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as a vessel
wherein is no pleasure.
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For they are gone up to Assyria,
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a wild ass alone by himself,
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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Yea, though they have
hired among the nations,
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now will I gather them,
and they shall sorrow a little
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for the burden of
the king of princes.
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Because Ephraim hath
made many altars to sin,
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altars shall be unto him to sin.
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I have written to him
the great things of my law,
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but they were
counted as a strange thing.
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