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Hosea Chapter 13 (NRSVCE)

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¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

² And now they keep on sinning and make a cast image for themselves, idols of silver made according to their understanding, all of them the work of artisans. “Sacrifice to these,” they say. [1] People are kissing calves!

³ Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

⁴ Yet I have been the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

⁵ It was I who fed [2] you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

⁶ When I fed [3] them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart was proud; therefore they forgot me.

⁷ So I will become like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

⁸ I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would mangle them.

⁹ I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you? [4]

¹⁰ Where now is [5] your king, that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your rulers, of whom you said, “Give me a king and rulers”?

¹¹ I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

¹² Ephraim’s iniquity is bound up; his sin is kept in store.

¹³ The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for at the proper time he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

¹⁴ Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are [6] your plagues? O Sheol, where is [7] your destruction? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

¹⁵ Although he may flourish among rushes, [8] the east wind shall come, a blast from the LORD, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched. It shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

¹⁶ [9] Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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1	When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
2	And now they keep on sinning and make a cast image for themselves, idols of silver made according to their understanding, all of them the work of artisans. “Sacrifice to these,” they say. [1] People are kissing calves!
3	Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
4	Yet I have been the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
5	It was I who fed [2] you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
6	When I fed [3] them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart was proud; therefore they forgot me.
7	So I will become like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8	I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would mangle them.
9	I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you? [4]
10	Where now is [5] your king, that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your rulers, of whom you said, “Give me a king and rulers”?
11	I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.
12	Ephraim’s iniquity is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
13	The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for at the proper time he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.
14	Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are [6] your plagues? O Sheol, where is [7] your destruction? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
15	Although he may flourish among rushes, [8] the east wind shall come, a blast from the LORD, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched. It shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
16	[9] Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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