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1 ‎(1) The word of GOD that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the reigns of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, and in the reign of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel. ‎(2) When GOD first spoke to Hosea, GOD said to Hosea, “Go, get yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land will stray from following GOD.” ‎(3) So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She conceived and bore him a son, ‎(4) and GOD instructed him, “Name him Jezreel; for, I will soon punish the House of Jehu for the bloody deeds at Jezreel and put an end to the monarchy of the House of Israel. ‎(5) In that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” ‎(6) She conceived again and bore a daughter; and he was told, “Name her Lo-ruhamah; for I will no longer accept the House of Israel or pardon them. ‎(7) (But I will accept the House of Judah. And I will give them victory through the ETERNAL their God; I will not give them victory with bow and sword and battle, by horses and riders.)” ‎(8) After weaning Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. ‎(9) Then [God] said, “Name him Lo-ammi; for you are not My people, and I will not be your [God].”
2 ‎(1) The number of the people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and instead of being told, “You are Not-My-People,” they shall be called Children-of-the-Living-God. ‎(2) The people of Judah and the people of Israel shall assemble together and appoint one head over them; and they shall rise from the ground—for marvelous shall be the day of Jezreel! ‎(3) Oh, call your brothers “My People,”
And your sisters “Lovingly Accepted!” ‎(4) Remonstrate your mother, remonstrate her—
For she is not My wife
And I am not her husband—
And let her put away her whoredom from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts. ‎(5) Else will I strip her naked
And leave her as on the day she was born:
And I will make her like a wilderness,
Render her like desert land,
And let her die of thirst. ‎(6) I will also disown her children;
For they are now a whore’s brood, ‎(7) In that their mother has played the whore,
She that conceived them has acted shamelessly—
Because she thought,
“I will go after my lovers,
Who supply my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.” ‎(8) Assuredly,
I will hedge up her roads with thorns
And raise walls against her,
And she shall not find her paths. ‎(9) Pursue her lovers as she will,
She shall not overtake them;
And seek them as she may,
She shall never find them.
Then she will say,
“I will go and return
To my first husband,
For then I fared better than now.” ‎(10) And she did not consider this:
It was I who bestowed on her
The new grain and wine and oil;
I who lavished silver on her
And gold—which they used for Baal. ‎(11) Assuredly,
I will take back My new grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And I will snatch away My wool and My linen
That serve to cover her nakedness. ‎(12) Now will I uncover her shame
In the very sight of her lovers,
And not one of them shall save her from Me. ‎(13) And I will end all her rejoicing:
Her festivals, new moons, and sabbaths—
All her festive seasons. ‎(14) I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
Which she thinks are a fee
She received from her lovers;
I will turn them into brushwood,
And beasts of the field shall devour them. ‎(15) Thus will I punish her
For the days of the Baalim,
On which she brought them offerings;
When, decked with earrings and jewels,
She would go after her lovers,
Forgetting Me
—declares GOD. ‎(16) Assuredly,
I will speak coaxingly to her
And lead her through the wilderness
And speak to her tenderly. ‎(17) I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the Valley of Achor as a plowland of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
When she came up from the land of Egypt. ‎(18) And in that day
—declares GOD—
You will call [Me] Ishi,
And no more will you call Me Baali. ‎(19) For I will remove the names of the Baalim from her mouth,
And they shall nevermore be mentioned by name.
‎(20) In that day, I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; I will also banish bow, sword, and war from the land. Thus I will let them lie down in safety. ‎(21) And I will espouse you forever:
I will espouse you with righteousness and justice,
And with goodness and mercy, ‎(22) And I will espouse you with faithfulness;
Then you shall be devoted to GOD. ‎(23) In that day,
I will respond
—declares GOD—
I will respond to the sky,
And it shall respond to the earth; ‎(24) And the earth shall respond
With new grain and wine and oil,
And they shall respond to Jezreel. ‎(25) I will sow her in the land as My own;
And take Lo-ruhamah back in favor;
And I will say to Lo-ammi, “You are My people,”
And he will respond, “[You are] my God.”
3 ‎(1) GOD
said to me further, “Go, befriend a woman who, while befriended by a companion, consorts with others, just as GOD befriends the Israelites, but they turn to other gods and love the cups of the grape.” ‎(2) Then I hired her for fifteen [shekels of] silver, a *ḥomer* of barley, and a *lethech* of barley; ‎(3) and I stipulated with her, “In return, you are to go a long time without either fornicating or marrying; even I [shall not cohabit] with you.” ‎(4) For the Israelites shall go a long time without king and without officials, without sacrifice and without cult pillars, and without ephod and oracle idols. ‎(5) Afterward, the Israelites will turn back and will seek the ETERNAL their God and David their king—and they will thrill over GOD and over God’s bounty in the days to come.
4 ‎(1) Hear the word of GOD,
O people of Israel!
For GOD has a case
Against the inhabitants of this land,
Because there is no honesty and no goodness
And no devotion to God in the land. ‎(2) [False] swearing, dishonesty, and murder,
And theft and adultery are rife;
Crime follows upon crime! ‎(3) For that, the earth is withered:
Everything that dwells on it languishes—
Beasts of the field and birds of the sky—
Even the fish of the sea perish. ‎(4) “Absolutely no one shall rebuke; none shall protest!”
For this, your people has a grievance against [you], O priest! ‎(5) So you shall stumble by day,
And by night a prophet shall stumble as well,
And I will destroy your kindred. ‎(6) My people is destroyed for the lack of devotion!
Because you have rejected devotion,
I reject you as My priest;
Because you have spurned the teaching of your God,
I, in turn, will spurn your children. ‎(7) The more they increased, the more they sinned against Me:
I will change their dignity to dishonor. ‎(8) They feed on My people’s purgation offerings,
And so they desire its iniquity. ‎(9) Therefore, the people shall fare like the priests:
I will punish it for its conduct,
I will requite it for its deeds. ‎(10) Truly, they shall eat, but not be sated;
They shall swill, but not be satisfied,
Because they have forsaken GOD
To practice ‎(11) lechery.
Wine and new wine destroy
The mind of ‎(12) My people:
It consults its stick,
Its rod directs it!
A lecherous impulse has made them go wrong,
And they have strayed from submission to their God. ‎(13) They sacrifice on the mountaintops
And offer on the hills,
Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths
Whose shade is so pleasant.
That is why their daughters fornicate
And their daughters-in-law commit adultery! ‎(14) I will not punish their daughters for fornicating
Nor their daughters-in-law for committing adultery;
For they themselves turn aside with whores
And sacrifice with female consecrated workers,
And a people that is without sense must stumble. ‎(15) If you are a lecher, Israel—
Let not Judah incur guilt—
Do not come to Gilgal,
Do not make pilgrimages to Beth-aven,
And do not swear by GOD! ‎(16) Ah, Israel has balked
Like a stubborn cow;
Therefore,
GOD
will graze him
On the range, like a sheep. ‎(17) Ephraim is addicted to images—
Let him be. ‎(18) They drink to excess—
Their liquor turns against them.
They “love” beyond measure—
Disgrace is the “gift” ‎(19) That the wind is bringing;
They shall garner shame from their sacrifices.
5 ‎(1) Hear this, O priests,
Attend, O House of Israel,
And give ear, O royal house;
For right conduct is your responsibility!
But you have been a snare to Mizpah
And a net spread out over Tabor; ‎(2) For when trappers dug deep pitfalls,
I was the only reprover of them all. ‎(3) Yes, I have watched Ephraim,
Israel has not escaped my notice:
Behold, you have fornicated, O Ephraim;
Israel has defiled himself! ‎(4) Their habits do not let them
Turn back to their God;
Because of the lecherous impulse within them,
They pay no heed to GOD. ‎(5) Israel’s pride shall be humbled before his very eyes,
As Israel and Ephraim fall because of their sin
(And Judah falls with them). ‎(6) Then they will go with their sheep and cattle
To seek GOD—whom they will not find.
They have been cast off: ‎(7) [Because] they have broken faith with GOD,
Because they have begotten
Alien children.
Therefore, the new moon
Shall devour their portion. ‎(8) Sound a ram’s horn in Gibeah,
A trumpet in Ramah;
Give the alarm in Beth-aven;
After you, Benjamin! ‎(9) Ephraim is stricken with horror
On a day of chastisement.
Against the tribes of Israel
I proclaim certainties: ‎(10) The officers of Judah have acted
Like shifters of field boundaries;
On them I will pour out
My wrath like water. ‎(11) Ephraim is defrauded,
Robbed of redress,
Because he has witlessly
Gone after futility. ‎(12) For it is I who am like rot to Ephraim,
Like decay to the House of Judah; ‎(13) Yet when Ephraim became aware of his sickness,
Judah of his sores,
Ephraim repaired to Assyria—
He sent envoys to a patron king!
He will never be able to cure you,
Will not heal you of your sores. ‎(14) No, I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
Like a great beast to the House of Judah;
I, I will attack and stride away,
Carrying the prey that no one can rescue; ‎(15) And I will return to My abode—
Till they realize their guilt.
In their distress, they will seek Me
And beg for My favor.
6 ‎(1) “Come, let us turn back to GOD:
The One who attacked, and so can heal us;
Who wounded, and so can bind us up. ‎(2) In two days [God] will make us whole again,
And on the third day raise us up;
God’s favor will make us whole. ‎(3) Let us pursue devotion to GOD,
And we shall become devout.
As sure as daybreak is God’s appearance,
Which will come to us like rain,
Like latter rain that refreshes the earth.” ‎(4) What can I do for you, Ephraim,
What can I do for you, Judah,
When your goodness is like morning clouds,
Like dew so early gone? ‎(5) That is why I have hewn down the prophets,
Have slain them with the words of My mouth:
And the day that dawned [brought on] your punishment. ‎(6) For I desire goodness, not sacrifice;
Devotion to God, rather than burnt offerings. ‎(7) But they, as human beings [are wont to do], have transgressed the Covenant.
This is where they have been false to Me: ‎(8) Gilead is a city of evildoers,
Tracked up with blood. ‎(9) The gang of priests is
Like the ambuscade of bandits
Who murder on the road to Shechem,
For they have encouraged depravity. ‎(10) In the House of Israel I have seen
A horrible thing;
Ephraim has fornicated there,
Israel has defiled himself. ‎(11) (Even Judah has reaped a harvest of you!)
When I would restore My people’s fortunes,
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