Hello and welcome
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today
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we'll be reading
together from the book of Hosea.
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But lets pray before we start.
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Dear heavenly father,
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we want to come
part now and be still
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and know the you
are the God of universe
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and the God of our lives,
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please send your holy Spirit
to be with us now as we read,
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in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
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Reading from the book of Hosea,
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chapter 8 and
beginning with verse 13
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and this is the
King James Version.
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They sacrifice
flesh for the sacrifices
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of mine offerings, and eat it,
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but the Lord accepteth them not,
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now will he
remember their iniquity,
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and visit their sins.
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they shall return to Egypt.
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For Israel hath
forgotten his Maker,
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and buildeth temples,
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and Judah hath
multiplied fenced cities.
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But I will send a
fire upon his cities,
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and it shall devour
the palaces thereof.
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Continuing with
Hosea, Chapter 9.
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Rejoice not, O Israel,
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for joy, as other people,
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for thou hast gone a
whoring from thy God,
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thou hast loved a
reward upon every cornfloor.
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The floor and the
winepress shall not feed them,
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and the new wine
shall fail in her.
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They shall not
dwell in the Lord's land,
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but Ephraim
shall return to Egypt,
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and they shall eat
unclean things in Assyria.
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They shall not offer
wine offerings to the Lord,
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neither shall they
be pleasing unto him,
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their sacrifices
shall be unto them
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as the bread of mourners;
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all that eat
thereof shall be polluted,
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for their bread for their soul
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shall not come into
the house of the Lord.
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What will ye do
in the solemn day,
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and in the day of
the feast of the Lord?
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For, lo, they are gone
because of destruction.
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Egypt shall gather them up,
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Memphis shall bury them,
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the pleasant
places for their silver,
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nettles shall possess them,
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thorns shall be
in their tabernacles.
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The days of visitation are come,
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the days of recompence are come.
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Israel shall know it.
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The prophet is a fool,
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the spiritual man is mad,
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for the multitude
of thine iniquity,
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and the great hatred.
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The watchman of
Ephraim was with my God.
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But the prophet is a snare
of a fowler in all his ways,
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and hatred in
the house of his God.
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They have deeply
corrupted themselves,
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as in the days of Gibeah.
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Therefore he will
remember their iniquity,
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he will visit their sins.
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I found Israel like
grapes in the wilderness,
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I saw your
fathers as the firstripe
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in the fig tree
at her first time.
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But they went to Baalpeor,
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and separated
themselves unto that shame,
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and their abominations
were according as they loved.
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As for Ephraim, their glory
shall fly away like a bird,
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from the birth,
and from the womb,
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and from the conception.
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Though they bring
up their children,
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yet will I bereave them,
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and there shall
not be a man left.
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Yea, woe also to them
when I depart from them.
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Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus,
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is planted in a pleasant place.
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But Ephraim shall bring forth
his children to the murderer.
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Give them, O Lord.
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What wilt thou give?
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give them a miscarrying
womb and dry breasts.
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All their
wickedness is in Gilgal,
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for there I hated them,
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for the
wickedness of their doings
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I will drive them
out of mine house,
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I will love them no more,
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all their princes are revolters.
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Ephraim is smitten,
their root is dried up,
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they shall bear no fruit.
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Yea, though they bring forth,
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yet will I slay even the beloved
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fruit of their womb.
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My God will cast them away,
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Because they did
not hearken unto him.
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And they shall be
wanderers among the nations.
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Continuing with
Hosea, Chapter 10,
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this is the King James Version.
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Israel is an empty vine,
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he bringeth forth
fruit unto himself,
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according to the
multitude of his fruit
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he hath increased the altars,
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according to the
goodness of his land
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they have made goodly images.
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Their heart is divided,
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now shall they be found faulty.
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He shall break
down their altars,
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he shall spoil their images.
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For now they shall
say, we have no king,
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because we feared not the Lord.
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What then
should a king do to us?
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They have spoken words,
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swearing falsely
in making a covenant.
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Thus judgment springeth up
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as hemlock in the
furrows of the field.
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The inhabitants
of Samaria shall fear
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because of the
calves of Bethaven,
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for the people
thereof shall mourn over it,
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and the priests
thereof that rejoiced on it,
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for the glory thereof,
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because it is departed from it.
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It shall be also
carried unto Assyria
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for a present to king Jareb.
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Ephraim shall receive shame,
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and Israel shall be
ashamed of his own counsel.
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As for Samaria,
her king is cut off
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as the foam upon the water.
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The high places also of Aven,
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the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
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The thorn and the thistle
shall come up on their altars,
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and they shall
say to the mountains,
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cover us, and to
the hills, fall on us.
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O Israel, thou hast sinned
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from the days of
Gibeah, there they stood.
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The battle in Gibeah
against the children of iniquity
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did not overtake them.
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It is in my desire
that I should chastise them,
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and the people shall
be gathered against them,
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when they shall bind
themselves in their two furrows.
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And Ephraim is as an
heifer that is taught,
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and loveth to
tread out the corn,
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but I passed over
upon her fair neck.
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I will make Ephraim to ride,
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Judah shall plow, and
Jacob shall break his clods.
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Sow to
yourselves in righteousness,
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reap in mercy, break
up your fallow ground.
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For it is time to seek the Lord,
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till he come and rain
righteousness upon you.
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Ye have plowed wickedness,
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ye have reaped iniquity,
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ye have eaten the fruit of lies,
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because thou
didst trust in thy way,
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in the multitude
of thy mighty men.
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Therefore shall a
tumult arise among thy people,
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and all thy
fortresses shall be spoiled,
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as Shalman spoiled
Betharbel in the day of battle,
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the mother was dashed in
pieces upon her children.
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So shall Bethel do unto you
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because of your
great wickedness,
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in a morning shall the king
of Israel utterly be cut off.
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Continuing in Hosea, Chapter 11.
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When Israel was a child,
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then I loved him, and
called my son out of Egypt.
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As they called them,
so they went from them.
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They sacrificed unto Baalim,
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and burned
incense to graven images.
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I taught Ephraim also to go,
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taking them by their arms,
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but they knew not
that I healed them.
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I drew them with cords of a man,
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with bands of love.
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And I was to them
as they that take off
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the yoke on their jaws,
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and I laid meat unto them.
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He shall not return
into the land of Egypt,
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and the Assyrian
shall be his king,
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because they refused to return.
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And the sword shall
abide on his cities,
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and shall consume his branches,
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and devour them,
because of their own counsels.
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And my people are bent
to backsliding from me,
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though they called
them to the most High,
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none at all would exalt him.
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How shall I give
thee up, Ephraim?
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How shall I
deliver thee, Israel?
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How shall I make thee as Admah?
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How shall I set thee as Zeboim?
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Mine heart is turned within me,
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my repentings
are kindled together.
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I will not execute the
fierceness of mine anger,
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I will not return
to destroy Ephraim,
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for I am God, and not man.
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The Holy One in
the midst of thee,
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and I will not
enter into the city.
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They shall walk after the Lord.
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He shall roar like a lion.
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When he shall
roar, then the children
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shall tremble from the west.
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They shall tremble
as a bird out of Egypt,
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and as a dove out
of the land of Assyria.
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And I will place
them in their houses,
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saith the Lord.
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Ephraim compasseth
me about with lies,
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and the house of
Israel with deceit.
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But Judah yet ruleth with God,
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and is faithful with the saints.
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Continuing in Hosea, Chapter 12
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Ephraim feedeth on wind,
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and followeth
after the east wind.
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He daily increaseth
lies and desolation,
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and they do make a
covenant with the Assyrians,
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and oil is carried into Egypt.
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The Lord hath also a
controversy with Judah,
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and will punish Jacob
according to his ways,
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according to his
doings will he recompense him.
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He took his brother
by the heel in the womb,
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and by his strength
he had power with God.
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Yea, he had power over
the angel, and prevailed.
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He wept, and made
supplication unto him.
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He found him in Bethel,
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and there he spake with us.
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Even the Lord God of
hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
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Therefore turn thou to thy God.
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Keep mercy and judgment
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and wait on thy God continually.
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He is a merchant, the balances
of deceit are in his hand.
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He loveth to oppress.
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And Ephraim said,
Yet I am become rich,
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I have found me out
substance, in all my labours
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they shall find none
iniquity in me that were sin.
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And I that am the Lord
thy God from the land of Egypt
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will yet make thee
to dwell in tabernacles,
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as in the days
of the solemn feast.
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I have also
spoken by the prophets,
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and I have multiplied visions,
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and used similitudes,
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by the ministry of the prophets.
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Is there iniquity in Gilead?
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Surely they are vanity.
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They sacrifice
bullocks in Gilgal.
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Yea, their altars are as heaps
in the furrows of the fields.
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And Jacob fled into
the country of Syria,
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and Israel served for a wife,
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and for a wife he kept sheep.
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And by a prophet the Lord
brought Israel out of Egypt,
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and by a prophet
was he preserved.
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Ephraim provoked him
to anger most bitterly.
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Therefore shall he
leave his blood upon him,
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and his reproach shall
his Lord return unto him.
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Continuing in Hosea, Chapter 13
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and this is the
King James Version.
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When Ephraim spake trembling,
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he exalted himself in Israel.
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But when he
offended in Baal, he died.
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And now they sin more and more,
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and have made them
molten images of their silver,
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and idols according to
their own understanding,
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all of it the
work of the craftsmen.
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They say of them,
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let the men that
sacrifice kiss the calves.
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Therefore they shall
be as the morning cloud
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and as the early
dew that passeth away,
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as the chaff that is driven
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with the
whirlwind out of the floor,
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and as the smoke
out of the chimney.
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Yet I am the Lord thy
God from the land of Egypt,
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and thou shalt
know no god but me,
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for there is no
savior beside me.
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I did know thee
in the wilderness,
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in the land of great drought.
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According to their pasture,
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so were they
filled, they were filled,
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and their heart was exalted,
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therefore have
they forgotten me.
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Therefore I will be
unto them as a lion.
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As a leopard by the
way will I observe them.
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I will meet them as a bear
that is bereaved of her whelps,
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and will rend the
caul of their heart,
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and there will I
devour them like a lion.
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The wild beast shall tear them.
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O Israel, thou
hast destroyed thyself.
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But in me is thine help.
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I will be thy king.
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Where is any other that may
save thee in all thy cities?
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And thy judges
of whom thou saidst.
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Give me a king and princes?
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I gave thee a
king in mine anger,
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and took him away in my wrath.
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The iniquity of Ephraim
is bound up, his sin is hid.
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The sorrows of a travailing
woman shall come upon him.
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He is an unwise son,
for he should not stay long
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in the place of the
breaking forth of children.
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I will ransom them
from the power of the grave.
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I will redeem them from death.
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O death, I will be thy plagues.
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O grave, I will
be thy destruction.
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Repentance shall
be hid from mine eyes.
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Though he be
fruitful among his brethren,
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an east wind shall come,
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the wind of the Lord shall
come up from the wilderness,
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and his spring shall become dry,
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and his fountain
shall be dried up.
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He shall spoil the treasure
of all pleasant vessels.
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Samaria shall become desolate,
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for she hath
rebelled against her God.
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They shall fall by the sword,
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their infants shall
be dashed in pieces,
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and their women with
child shall be ripped up.
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Continuing with
Hosea, Chapter 14.
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O israel, return
unto the Lord thy God,
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for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity.
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Take with you words,
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and turn to the
Lord, say unto him,
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Take away all iniquity,
and receive us graciously.
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So will we render
the calves of our lips.
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Asshur shall not save us.
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We will not ride upon horses.
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Neither will we say any
more to the work of our hands,
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ye are our gods.
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For in thee the
fatherless findeth mercy.
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